Re: [gnome-love] Volunteers wanted: New GUI for printerdrake

[Till Kamppeter <till kamppeter gmail com>]

Jeramy Rutley wrote:
> On 6/4/07, Till Kamppeter <till kamppeter gmail com> wrote:
> > printerdrake is written in Perl, the files belonging to printerdrake and
> > the user documentation you can also get here:
>
> Hi Till,
>
> I assume that this also means that the UI should be done in Perl as
> well?  I've never programmed in GTK+, and I've never coded in Perl, so
> I don't know how much use I'd be, but I think I would be interested in
> helping out.

Programming in Perl is not difficult to learn for C programmers. The 
main thing which exists in Perl but not in C is the superior handling of 
regular expressions (see "man perlre"). To have GTK-based dialogs the 
perl-gtk2 Perl library is used, as already done for the main window.

   Till