On 30. Mar 11 15:10, Ion Cebotari wrote: > Hello, > My name is Ion and I'm a beginning programmer. I have small > experience in programming C/C++ and Python. Centerim has been my > favourite IM software for almost three years, so i've decided to > join the development mail list and help with anything I can.
Hello, and welcome, it's always nice to see new people interested in cim development. > I still have no experience in working with libpurple, ncurses or > other libs in use with centerim, so now i'm just trying to read and > understand the code of Centerim 5. Libpurple API should be relatively easy to pick up. It's well documented in header files. You shouldn't need any curses knowledge unless you are going to write new widgets (or edit drawing methods of current ones). > As soon as I would understand > your code, I'll try to help you with its development. Or if there > are some things that could be done by me and your hands simply > didn't get there, please tell me. > Thank you very much for your attention. Here are some suggestions (from easier tasks to harder ones): * Implement a user info window that is opened for a currently focused contact/buddy when the user presses a specified key. You can inspire yourself in finch or pidgin. For finch see draw_tooltip_real() in gntblist.c, for pidgin see pidgin_retrieve_user_info() in gtkutils.c and pidgin_notify_userinfo() in gtknotify.c. Pidgin implementation may be a bit harder. * Buddy list customization. Implement Mode1, Mode2 and "flat mode" as known from cim4. See how buddy list is rebuilt in pidgin: redo_buddy_list() in gtkblist.c. * Implement account UI ops, especially request_add(), request_authorize() and close_account_request(). -- Petr Pavlu -- _______________________________________________ Centerim-devel mailing list Centerim-devel@centerim.org http://centerim.org/mailman/listinfo/centerim-devel http://www.centerim.org/
