Re: Hi, I'm back

[Fred Kiefer]

David Lázaro Saz wrote:
> I'm back.  After five odd years away from GNUstep development I can  
> return contributing again.  My circumstances have changed a lot,  
> obviously, from the beginnings of 2000.  I'm older and all that.   I've 
> been a professional developer all this years, mainly in  
> commercial/proprietary code bases.
Nice to have you back, you seem to have left about a month before I 
started with active GNUstep development. That way, we never met before. 
The interesting bit is that I was also involved with GNUstep development 
on Windows. I gave up on this in the mean time (I just don't use Windows 
often enought now), but am still interested in what goes on there.

> I have personal goals for this porting effort that could be at odds  
> with the current design of the GNUstep GUI library and parts of  
> foundation so I'd like to discuss my ideas with the people that are  now 
> actively in charge of the Windows parts of the code.  Drop me a  message 
> and I'll tell you what are my impressions or contact me  through AIM at 
> this e-mail address (my time zone is GMT+1, Europe/ Madrid, mind you).

Why not start off with a public discusion on this mailing list and move 
to private conversations when stuff gets to boring for most readers?

What is it you want to change? Just get the default colours/fonts from 
the theming engine? Nice idea, if we get that working without breaking 
stuff for older NT versions.
Or are you thinking about changing the whole drawing interface once or? 
That is the division between gui and back? I am not sure, if I would 
like that idea. At least you will need some good arguments for it.

Did you also have a look into the new drawing engine code in GUI 
(GSDrawFunctions.m)? Currently most of us agree that this is the way to 
go. Move all actual drawing code there and allow applicactions or 
libraries to overwrite the code code.

Cheers
Fred