A developer seeks some work
Hi Inkscapers!
My name is André Twupack and I have been using Inkscape for two years now. I have used it mainly as a utility to create/edit SVG-based circuit diagrams to test a Batik-based software I have developed. From my working background I'm a Java developer with in-depth knowledge about XML/SVG and I'm also having some experience in C/C++ although not on a professional level.
During the last two years I have provided a few minor patches but now I would like to become more involved in the development of Inkscape. Therefore I'm posting here to find one of the members of the development team who needs some help or can assign me a task.
As I'm especially interested in GUI design/development, I could perhaps help with the migration of Inkscape to gtkmm. Maybe one of the developers already working on this could contact me with some information about what still needs to be done and how I can help.
I hope with my work I can help to make Inkscape even better as it already is.
André
On Nov 2, 2007, at 4:54 PM, Andre Twupack wrote:
As I'm especially interested in GUI design/development, I could perhaps help with the migration of Inkscape to gtkmm. Maybe one of the developers already working on this could contact me with some information about what still needs to be done and how I can help.
Hi Andre,
Always glad to see more developers step up.
For UI work, there are a few different areas. Probably the best thing to do would be to get on the chat room sometime and talk with people in there. We have a Jabber and IRC presence, listed in the contact info on the main website.
Bulia tends to be doing a lot more of the tool work lately. I've been working on misc UI issues, color calibration and a few other things.
One aspect that I focus on is the structure of the internals and abstract architecture, so if you are interested in the "refitting" to gtkmm that would be one place to start.
I'm usually in the chat evenings and nights Pacific Time, but others are around throughout the day (we have a pretty good spread of developers around the globe).
On 11/2/07, Andre Twupack <atwupack@...1081...> wrote:
During the last two years I have provided a few minor patches but now I would like to become more involved in the development of Inkscape. Therefore I'm posting here to find one of the members of the development team who needs some help or can assign me a task.
As I'm especially interested in GUI design/development, I could perhaps help with the migration of Inkscape to gtkmm. Maybe one of the developers already working on this could contact me with some information about what still needs to be done and how I can help.
Welcome! I think if you are interested in UI and GTKmm, an excellent first task would be to convert the remaining gtk dialogs to gtkmm. We have migrated some of them but not all yet. Up to now this task was not so urgent, because there was little difference between old and new dialogs for the user, but now that the gtkmm dialogs are dockable and others are not, it's going to be very annoying. Examples of old dialogs that need conversion: Find, Object properties, Tile clones; examples of new dockable ones: Fill&Stroke, Layers, History. This is not very difficult - you don't need to thoroughly rework the dialogs, just wrap them in the new Dialog class. For details, ask Gustav Broberg who's the author of the dockability patch and he also was the last person so far to convert a dialog (fill&stroke) to the new style.
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 12:54:45AM +0100, Andre Twupack wrote:
Hi Inkscapers!
My name is Andr? Twupack and I have been using Inkscape for two years now. I have used it mainly as a utility to create/edit SVG-based circuit diagrams to test a Batik-based software I have developed. From my working background I'm a Java developer with in-depth knowledge about XML/SVG and I'm also having some experience in C/C++ although not on a professional level.
During the last two years I have provided a few minor patches but now I would like to become more involved in the development of Inkscape. Therefore I'm posting here to find one of the members of the development team who needs some help or can assign me a task.
As I'm especially interested in GUI design/development, I could perhaps help with the migration of Inkscape to gtkmm. Maybe one of the developers already working on this could contact me with some information about what still needs to be done and how I can help.
If you're interested, we're going to need much help between now and the release in polishing up UI and repairing any remaining high priority bugs in the UI code.
Bryce
participants (4)
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Andre Twupack -
Bryce Harrington -
bulia byak -
Jon A. Cruz