Re: [gnome-love] Re: [gnome-love]Wow.

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

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  Peter, you have been CCed because you are listed as the GNOME media
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  George, you have been CCed because you maintain gnome-core/gnome-applets.

  Jacob, you have been CCed because you maintain gnome-core and
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> I've been floating around the Gnome community not doing too much for a
> couple years now, always wanting to do a bit more.  The problem that
> always prevented me from jumpin in and doing some coding is feeling like I
> would be stepping on people toes, or worse yet that I would implement
> something only to find out that it either is obsoleted or redundant.  
> Looks like this list is exactly what I need.

Welcome!

> One weekend i decided to add an auto popup delay to compliment the auto
> hide delay in the panel, but have never gotten around to submitting a
> patch.  I use it a lot and find it makes autohide panels a lot friendlier
> (helps avoid that dance you always do when going for a menu or button and
> overshooting a little, hence triggering the panel to popup and block the
> thing you went to click in the first place :)  I suppose that that would
> be my first request, how would I go about getting this in for the next
> release?  I imagine I am going to have to install gtk1.3 et all and
> make sure it works with that...

The current panel still works with the GNOME 1.4 distribution, so you
do not need to install the GNOME 2 development platform.  Send the
patch to jirka 5z com and jacob ximian com, they are the maintainers
of the panel.

We can help you polish it if you want.

> Ok, thats a good question, do people run into any complications having
> both gtk1.2 and gtk1.3 installed?

Not currently, we will do a jump once the development platform has
been frozen.   The APIs change enough that it will require all
the modules to be branched.

> The next thing i have done was clean up the interface to the gtcd and the
> cd panel app a lot... but i found a bunch of bugs in them and found that
> they both had a ton of redundant code.  I would like to merge the two into
> one codebase.  Is that stepping on anyones toes?

Nobody is maintaining gtcd nor the CD panel applet as far as I know.
Maybe it would be good to move the panel applet into gnome-media, and
have gnome-media "provide" the applet, so we can share more code
between them.

Miguel.