Re: [Beaver-devel] TODO additions

[Michael Terry]

Leslie Polzer wrote:
> Hello Michael,
>
> - add 'close' button on toolbar

Yeah, ideally (and according to the HIG), the toolbar is customizable. 
The HIG specifies that a Close button should not be on the toolbar by 
default (I don't know why, I kind of like it there -- but that's why we 
make it customizable).  So, maybe instead you could add support for a 
dynamic toolbar (add code to grab the appropriate stuff in the config 
file, have it work from that, and just hand-edit your config file).  I 
wouldn't worry about updating the prefs dialog yet, because of course we 
are about to change it.


> - add HACKING file w/ accumulated descriptions of sources and important macros

Good idea.  I'll try and keep it up to date with any of my changes.


> - make doxygen.conf for function list; doxify sources

Intriguing.  Sounds good, although I'm not very familiar with it.


> Additional and extraordinary syntax hightlighting feature proposal:
> Highlight by syntax and context, e.g. for variable types not intrinsic.
> It has always been annoying to me that there is absolutely no editor
> that hightlight custom data types in C (think GtkWidget).
> I have made some studies with PerlRE on this subject and must conclude
> that it is possible to achieve this with some nice regular expressions.
> This feature should be optional, though.

Sounds cool.  It's a feature I've often missed.


> Autotoolizing. I know Automake and Autoconf and could do this one
> if you don't have any problems with it - GetText will be yours to do
> in any case, though.

Sure.  I don't care who does it, but we definitely need to autotoolize.  :)


> Glade & RAD. I would like to emphasize that Glade could provide a great
> enhancement in the maintenance and development of complex dialogues
> like the 'Preferences' one.

Yeah, I agree.  I looked into Glade and played around with it.  It was a 
bit much for me at once.  I'll have to read some docs maybe or just play 
around with it.

-mt

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