From Roy Torley: support to evaporate soon for gtkmm?
Hello, I took a quick look at Kjell Ahlstedt's statement that he will cease to maintain gtkmm and other such modules soon. Before I write him to find out what's happening, I would like to get a few ideas from any of you what you want to see in gtkmm so that I can write a letter that is worth reading.
For context about me, I am just getting back into C++ after a 20-year hiatus and am in the process of reviewing latest developments in the language. I have written an introductory tutorial series for Inkscape, so I have a decent feeling for how to use it so I can talk with you about it intelligently (I hope).
My basic idea is that, if Kjell wants to move on from gtkmm, might it be worth our while to step in where he leaves off? Might there be other options? I speak naively because I am new to this particular arena of software development and yet am interested in contributing to Inkscape's good health in a meaningful way.
I appreciate and salute all of you who are doing all this work for Inkscape and for all those graphic artists who desperately want to learn, improve, and realize their creative potential with this powerful tool. Your thoughts and perspectives are more than welcome.
Best wishes for the early Spring,
Roy Torley
Hi Roy,
If you are available, we have a developer meeting every 8 days: https://inkscape.org/cals/event/1/ which is a video call. This has been discussed briefly and I think it would make a good topic of discussion. Doesn't have to be tomorrow's meeting, could be scheduled out since this isn't an emergency situation.
Thank you so much for your willingness to do some fact finding on this one.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
On Thu, 2022-04-07 at 00:18 -0400, Roy Torley wrote:
Hello, I took a quick look at Kjell Ahlstedt's statement that he will cease to maintain gtkmm and other such modules soon. Before I write him to find out what's happening, I would like to get a few ideas from any of you what you want to see in gtkmm so that I can write a letter that is worth reading.
For context about me, I am just getting back into C++ after a 20-year hiatus and am in the process of reviewing latest developments in the language. I have written an introductory tutorial series for Inkscape, so I have a decent feeling for how to use it so I can talk with you about it intelligently (I hope).
My basic idea is that, if Kjell wants to move on from gtkmm, might it be worth our while to step in where he leaves off? Might there be other options? I speak naively because I am new to this particular arena of software development and yet am interested in contributing to Inkscape's good health in a meaningful way.
I appreciate and salute all of you who are doing all this work for Inkscape and for all those graphic artists who desperately want to learn, improve, and realize their creative potential with this powerful tool. Your thoughts and perspectives are more than welcome.
Best wishes for the early Spring,
Roy Torley _______________________________________________ Inkscape Devel mailing list -- inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org To unsubscribe send an email to inkscape-devel-leave@lists.inkscape.org
Hi Everybody, I might be able to attend tomorrow's meeting. 10:00 a.m. Pacific Daylight Time (I'm in Gresham, Oregon, just east of Portland) is possible. No guarantees, though. It's been a long day here and it's time for this sentient to switch off consciousness temporarily.
Best wishes,
Roy Torley
From: "Joan/Roy Gaustad/Torley" bandura1@efn.org To: "Inkscape-devel" inkscape-devel@lists.inkscape.org Sent: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 9:18:23 PM Subject: [Inkscape-devel] From Roy Torley: support to evaporate soon for gtkmm?
Hello, I took a quick look at Kjell Ahlstedt's statement that he will cease to maintain gtkmm and other such modules soon. Before I write him to find out what's happening, I would like to get a few ideas from any of you what you want to see in gtkmm so that I can write a letter that is worth reading.
For context about me, I am just getting back into C++ after a 20-year hiatus and am in the process of reviewing latest developments in the language. I have written an introductory tutorial series for Inkscape, so I have a decent feeling for how to use it so I can talk with you about it intelligently (I hope).
My basic idea is that, if Kjell wants to move on from gtkmm, might it be worth our while to step in where he leaves off? Might there be other options? I speak naively because I am new to this particular arena of software development and yet am interested in contributing to Inkscape's good health in a meaningful way.
I appreciate and salute all of you who are doing all this work for Inkscape and for all those graphic artists who desperately want to learn, improve, and realize their creative potential with this powerful tool. Your thoughts and perspectives are more than welcome.
Best wishes for the early Spring,
Roy Torley
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