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Re: Hi, I'm back
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David Lázaro Saz |
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Re: Hi, I'm back |
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Thu, 19 May 2005 18:23:17 +0200 |
On 19/05/2005, at 10:36, Riccardo wrote:
Nice! it is good to get some experienced people back here.
Thanks.
Well, this is a good place to discuss public things and then we
always have #gnustep on irc.freenode.org which is a nice place to
chat too, although lately many "core" developers are busy or absent.
Hey, thanks for the tip. I tend to forget that IRC is available.
Well, if you already use EO, you don't use a native widget system,
but a very well done theme Although I initially disliked this
approach I now appreciate it more and think this is the way to go.
It won't be probably be too difficult to make a NT4 like theme and
one that looks like that rubber-candy look of XP.
Certainly possible. Windows provides a theme drawing API for that
support and the _classic_ look is specified completely in Microsoft
Windows User Experience book.
AFAIK, the current route is to work on MiniGW and use a native
backendo on GDI. This certainly is the besto route to go to achieve
maximum performance and integration. It will also ease deployment
of gnustep applications on windows.
EO on the other hand took originally a Cygwin approac.
I'm partial to the MinGW approach. It requires less support from the
environment.
Of course no one wil stop you to "bend" existing code to your
needs, but maybe you may want to have a look at what already exists
and what possibly the mainstream solutions are and will be, that
could help you to reuse as much as possible of the existing and
future work in "official" gnustep, but also to be able to commit
back most of your work and help gnustep itself.
That is my idea too. Maybe I didn't explain well myself but that was
why I used _bend_ instead of, lets say, _break_.
Cheers,
David.