On Fri, 1 Nov 2013 00:40:42 +0000 Andrew F <andrewfriedman...@gmail.com> said:
> Hey guys, can someone point me to documentation that explains what a > swallow is? > and how its used. > thanks swallow the name is something i adopted from fvwm2 days - it had swallow stuff... and swallows in edje are the same thing basically - just with objects. didn't you see my link to the swallow docs? https://build.enlightenment.org/job/nightly_efl_gcc_x86_64/lastSuccessfulBuild/artifact/doc/html/group__Edje__Part__Swallow.html#ga97d1419f89bff20ba971e47c78641271 its there in the efl online docs (thats the latest auto nightly doc build). > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Andrew F <andrewfriedman...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > enlightenment desktop is getting a lot of attention with e17. Good Speed, > > good looks, and great features. > > Maybe its time we step back and look at where we are going and what that > > means. If Enlightenment is going big time, we are going to have more > > qualified programmers join the project and they deserve to have decent > > documentation. After all, why should we make it harder for them to get up > > to speed. If they are joining the project, lets make it as easy as > > possible. > > > > S > > strong > > documentation to strengthen the project. > > P > > erhaps we can brake the information up into logical chapters and have > > different people or teams of people write specific chapters. > > > > Look at QT, they are getting huge and their documentation is exceptional. > > Its easy for developers to get up to speed. Their success is directly > > related to how easy it is to learn to program QT. > > I think we should follow that model to help e17 grow even faster. > > > > We need an editor to outline the document, create the table of contents > > and manage volunteers who will write the individual chapters. > > > > Who has the knowledge of e17 to do this? > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Carsten Haitzler > > <ras...@rasterman.com>wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 31 Oct 2013 09:02:04 -0300 Vinícius dos Santos Oliveira > >> <vini.ipsma...@gmail.com> said: > >> > >> > Em Qui, 2013-10-31 às 08:51 +0900, Carsten Haitzler escreveu: > >> > > >> > > i know. i spent some of my early life on unix/linux paying large sums > >> > > for > >> > > o'reilly books. and reading them cover to cover. they had diagrams. i > >> > > frankly > >> > > far prefer raw simple code over those books. the code is digestible in > >> > > a > >> > > fraction of the time. :) if i have an actual working bit of code i can > >> > > compile > >> > > it, run it and then modify it to see how it wobbles when poked. poke a > >> > > bit more > >> > > and see some more wobbling. these wobbles tell me the story of how > >> > > CHANGES to > >> > > the example affect the behaviour. start small with small changes and > >> > > see. :) a > >> > > book doesn't give me that. english words don't give me that. code > >> > > does. :) but > >> > > that is my style - i know that within all fields of education > >> > > including foreign > >> > > languages, math, science, etc. etc. i always gravitated to "learn by > >> > > example". > >> > > i naturally break up the examples into their constituent parts and > >> > > know how to > >> > > manipulate them - the pattern builds over time naturally. > >> > > >> > > >> > Code is interactive. School and all non-interactive shit is difficult > >> > and pain to learn (at least for me and for you). > >> > > >> > But... I wonder how you avoid undefined behaviour code that can break in > >> > the next release of the lib/compiler or in the second compiler/platform. > >> > >> experience teaches... and of course reading docs/references. > >> > >> -- > >> ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > >> The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > >> > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >> Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform > >> that > >> developers love is also attractive to malware creators. 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