As a part of my engineer's thesis I'm developing a interface analysis tool for GTK+. The tool's purpose is to let one judge how good the interface design is based on task execution and learning time. It'll employ a theoretical framework known as the GOMS method[1]. As I hope to get my code accepted into GTK+, I have a few questions.
I need to make GTK+ create an event log in runtime. I skimmed through documentation and the source code and I've found the --gtk-debug option. My idea was to add a one more debug flag named "goms" to make analysis conditional. Is it ok? It'd also be nice to have a way to specify a filename of the event log. Since it's not possible to squeeze the filename into the debug string, is it ok to introduce a second command line for this? I also wonder if there is a preferred format for dumps of this kind in GNOME. I think of going with XML since a lot of other things in GNOME like interface descriptions also make use of XML. Do you have better ideas or suggestions on this? If XML is ok, then what is the recommended way to generate XML output in GNOME? I saw that some parts of GTK+ are generating XML from inline strings and using convenience functions provided by GMarkup, which is rather not clean. Is it fine to generate dumps this way? I wonder if introducing a dependency on e.g. libxml would be better. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOMS _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list