On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 13:31 +0000, Michael Ikey Doherty wrote: > On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 21:44 -0600, meg ford wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Sébastien Wilmet <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 08:02:40PM +0000, Michael Ikey Doherty > > wrote: > > > Heh, true enough. I must admit when I saw the mockup artwork > > for the > > > potential GNOME IDE I somewhat drooled. Is that project > > still "a-go", > > > and if so is there somewhere where I could provide a little > > help? > > > > You might want to ask on #gnome-design to see if they are aware of > > anyone working on the IDE. I remember hearing a little about Christian > > Hergert's gnome-builder project but other than that I don't believe > > the IDE has gone beyond the mockup stage. But I haven't been on irc > > much lately, so I may be wrong :) > > > > > > Meg Ford > > > Thanks for the heads up. I've been thinking about it, and I believe > something could be made of this. However.. I think the name > "gnome-builder" is slightly deceptive. This gives the impression of > building GNOME, which it does not. That's jhbuild's job. Perhaps > "gnome-creator" is more apt. > > Another thing: Glade needs to support GtkHeaderBar by default. I'd argue > too that it should be the default option for Application windows, but > thats a bit out of scope for this conversation. > > The edit view is seriously limited by the fact it is reliant on tabs for > primary navigation. A TreeView (or similar) should be employed for a > project overview, though we could actually hide this by default in a > GtkRevealer. Given most of us opt for a visible right sidebar with an 80 > character width, I'd suggest an OSD style button on the right hand side > to expose the revealer, using a GtkOverlay (in fact, identical to the > setup in gnome-weather. > > I'll prepare a mockup of this today, and post for opinions. I'm happy to > undertake a GNOME IDE project, though perhaps at first keep it outside > of GNOME. Also I do not use GNOME's coding style, so perhaps an > agreement could be reached there :) (I personally use 8 spaces for > indent, function calls have no spaces before "(", etc. Think Connman, > but no tabs) > > - Ikey
As promised, preliminary mockup of what I meant with the sidebar: https://plus.google.com/+IkeyDoherty/posts/cJF7N9djmZz - Ikey --------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel Corporation (UK) Limited Registered No. 1134945 (England) Registered Office: Pipers Way, Swindon SN3 1RJ VAT No: 860 2173 47 This e-mail and any attachments may contain confidential material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review or distribution by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
