Re: Sharing widgets between GNOME 3 applications
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 13:45 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: The newly designed (or redesigned) GNOME 3 applications have some common UI elements. For example, if you look at the following designs, you will notice that the main toolbar, selection toolbar, main icon view, etc. are quite similar: + https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Boxes + https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Documents + https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Photos We may benefit from having a way to share these widgets among the applications. Currently, what I have been doing, for gnome-photos, is to copy-paste the *.c/*.h files from the gnome-documents tree. One downside of doing this is that the gnome-photos binary has some dead code which will never be executed. For example the code path that implements the list view for Documents, which is not necessary for Photos. So all the classes implementing it need to be copied over into the gnome-photos tree to avoid maintaining a fork of the GdMainView widget. Currently it is not so much of a practical problem, but I am curious to know if people have better ideas about this. If you write any new custom widgets, feel free to add them to: https://live.gnome.org/Design/Whiteboards/CustomAppWidgets See also 2 widgets I'm trying to get added to GTK+: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652809 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668013 Cheers ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Sharing widgets between GNOME 3 applications
On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 11:54 -0400, Erick Pérez Castellanos wrote: The way I see it, is that we need to provide some widgets to do the stuff following the guldelines of the new Gnome Design As Allan says here [1], there's a new kind of toolbar, which have some stuff in common, and it will be worthy to look into the possibility of make a specific widget for it, and the sames goes for those new kinds of iconviews, and for the selection patterns as well. [1](http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/a-new-approach-to-gnome-application-design/) Obviously the long term goal is to have a solid design language coupled with Gtk+/Clutter features that makes it easy to use, but while the design is being evolved we don't want to risk putting too much into the core platform, as anything there are highly frozen and API/ABI stable. So, i think sharing code by different means is the best approach for now. The git subtree stuff seems like a good candidate for this. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Sharing widgets between GNOME 3 applications
The newly designed (or redesigned) GNOME 3 applications have some common UI elements. For example, if you look at the following designs, you will notice that the main toolbar, selection toolbar, main icon view, etc. are quite similar: + https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Boxes + https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Documents + https://live.gnome.org/Design/Apps/Photos We may benefit from having a way to share these widgets among the applications. Currently, what I have been doing, for gnome-photos, is to copy-paste the *.c/*.h files from the gnome-documents tree. One downside of doing this is that the gnome-photos binary has some dead code which will never be executed. For example the code path that implements the list view for Documents, which is not necessary for Photos. So all the classes implementing it need to be copied over into the gnome-photos tree to avoid maintaining a fork of the GdMainView widget. Currently it is not so much of a practical problem, but I am curious to know if people have better ideas about this. Happy hacking, Debarshi -- Give a man ssh access, he'll still need a computer. Give him a computer, he'll give ssh access to you. -- Ashish Shukla pgpeAbZEigTlR.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Sharing widgets between GNOME 3 applications
Hey Debarshi, On Mon, 2012-05-07 at 13:45 +, Debarshi Ray wrote: We may benefit from having a way to share these widgets among the applications. Currently, what I have been doing, for gnome-photos, is to copy-paste the *.c/*.h files from the gnome-documents tree. One downside of doing this is that the gnome-photos binary has some dead code which will never be executed. For example the code path that implements the list view for Documents, which is not necessary for Photos. So all the classes implementing it need to be copied over into the gnome-photos tree to avoid maintaining a fork of the GdMainView widget. Currently it is not so much of a practical problem, but I am curious to know if people have better ideas about this. Yeah, I agree we could do better. I don't think another shared library would be the best solution though; maybe a better approach could be splitting these common bits in a separate git module and have projects import it using git submodule [1] (or git subtree? [2]). This way, maintenance of the common bits could still be managed in a single place, and different projects could even depend on different revisions of the shared code if they want (I believe if we use git subtree this could go as far as even maintaining an additional patchset on top of the shared tree). What do you think? [1] http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Submodules [2] http://git-scm.com/book/en/Git-Tools-Subtree-Merging ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Sharing widgets between GNOME 3 applications
Hi, On Mon, May 7, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Debarshi Ray rishi...@lostca.se wrote: The newly designed (or redesigned) GNOME 3 applications have some common UI elements. For example, if you look at the following designs, you will notice that the main toolbar, selection toolbar, main icon view, etc. are quite similar: Sorry for being so naive but why couldn't this be part of GTK+? -- Alexandre Franke ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Sharing widgets between GNOME 3 applications
The newly designed (or redesigned) GNOME 3 applications have some common UI elements. For example, if you look at the following designs, you will notice that the main toolbar, selection toolbar, main icon view, etc. are quite similar: Sorry for being so naive but why couldn't this be part of GTK+? The applications are young, the designs are young, which means they are still evolving. Putting them in GTK+ is risky because of API/ABI guarantees. Happy hacking, Debarshi -- Give a man ssh access, he'll still need a computer. Give him a computer, he'll give ssh access to you. -- Ashish Shukla pgpT4TQPcZFpf.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Re: Sharing widgets between GNOME 3 applications
The way I see it, is that we need to provide some widgets to do the stuff following the guldelines of the new Gnome Design As Allan says here [1], there's a new kind of toolbar, which have some stuff in common, and it will be worthy to look into the possibility of make a specific widget for it, and the sames goes for those new kinds of iconviews, and for the selection patterns as well. [1](http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/10/a-new-approach-to-gnome-application-design/) ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
