Re: First experience with gtkmm

[Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net>]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 01:39 -0400, Michael Ferrier wrote:
> 1) The documentation is incomplete, skimming over or leaving out major
> features. Because of this I had to find other web resources and do a
> lot of
> digging through header files. The system is intuitive enough that this
> was
> not a big problem, but it could be improved.

Improvement to the documentation is always welcome. You can send patches
to it, possibly filing bugs in bugzilla.
The main problem is that the documentation is written by those who know
how it works, therefor it might miss things that they consider obvious.
User peer review and correction is very much appreciated.

> 2) The first bug in gtkmm that I encountered was discouraging. This is
> the
> bug whereby a button cannot be pressed if it becomes active while the
> mouse
> is hovering over it:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56070
> 
> The fact that this bug has been known and gone unfixed for about 8
> years did
> not bode well. But I was pleasantly surprised when, through to the end
> of my
> development project, that had become the *only *bug in gtkmm that I
> encountered. Odd that it's stayed in there so long, but not a bad
> record at
> all. :-)

This is not a gtkmm bug but a gtk+ bug. There is so much gtkmm can do,
but fixing gtk+, it can not (well a developer can sit and fix it in gtk
+)
And yes it annoys me too.


Hub