Hi, On 5/23/06, Günther Noack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Grr { Good to go. 0.1 ? }This one is somewhere at 0.6, too. At the moment I'm not happy with its stability, though. I'm thinking about completely dropping the old Grr and rewriting a new, better designed application. If Grr in its current form still comes into an Etoile release, it will definitely have multithreading disabled. (It just wasn't designed for this when I began with it.)
Hm, one thing I would like is a better integration in the environment of Jabber and RSS... could be a simple for now as writing a menulet showing the last RSS, etc. ?
> Should we include Nesedah theme in 0.2 release ? > It looks good to me. Sometimes Nesedah makes applications very slow. I remember using Cynthiune with Nesedah, which was a really painful experience. :-( We should make sure it doesn't get in the way when it comes to performance and test it very thoroughly before releasing it into the wild.
Hm, sure; if it is slow it needs to be improved :-) I am working on integrating the specific -gui modifications that are in Camaelon back into -gui (in the branch "themes"). Once it's done Camaelon will need to be cleaned up and we can work on improving its performances. But these modifs should not impact a lot Camaelon itself, so whatever improvement we do will not be lost. We could possibly distribute the current svn version as the 0.2 version -- it seems to work ok,.. mostly. I should progress quickly on -gui, it's mostly backporting Camaelon modifs and doing it cleanly. So well it depends how far I will be with that when we'll want to release étoilé 0.2 -- if it's not finished then we can distributed the current svn version, if it's finished we'll need to update Camaelon to use -gui properly.
> How about HelpViewer.app ? I vote for HelpViewer. IMHO a working help system is - from the user perspective - one of the most important things still lacking in Etoile (and GNUstep in general). I am really looking forward to use it. :-)
I worked on HelpViewer recently; mostly, I moved to xhtml documents. Parser needs to be finished but it works for basic tags. When done, I can import it as it is in étoilé, as we'll be able to use it to document our applications. Shouldn't take too long, if I can get some free time. The long term goal is to move the xhtml parsing as a TextConverter (that we can provide with étoilé or that can perhaps be included directly in gnustep, I'm not fixed), and put most of helpviewer in NSHelpPanel (so that the online help is displayed "in" the applications and not in a separate program.. good thing is help panels will be automatically hidden, etc. Basically as in OPENSTEP). HelpViewer itself will continue to exists as an application, but to browse documentation not linked to specific app (eg manpages, or documentation explicitely added...). Hopefully it wil become more like Librarian.app then (eg a place where you can drop "documentation" which will be indexed and where you can easily search/organize, etc.) -- Nicolas Roard "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." -- Douglas Adams _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
