Re: gucharmap

[Noah Levitt <nlevitt columbia edu>]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 21:53:14 +0000, Glynn Foster wrote:
> 
> > Definitely, but I don't know what should be done with this.
> > Suggestions on how to proceed?
> 
> gnome-character-map uses GtkButton. Is it out of the question to move to
> using the same?

Oww, please don't say that! It has been a lot of work
getting the drawing area to look nice and work efficiently.
In the beginning I was considering different approaches,
including some kind of treeview, a label for each character,
and buttons, but my initial programming experiences along
with irc conversations with Owen and Havoc (of which I have
logs ;) made me to decide on using a drawing area. If
somebody wants to implement it using buttons and it turns
out to be better, that's cool, but I'm not going to spend
time on it.

So. Any other thoughts on accessibility? :)

> 
> > Well, it's only about 2 months old and hasn't been stress
> > tested or code reviewed or anything, so I think it still
> > deserves a humble version number. But maybe the next version
> > after 0.2 can be 1.0.
> 
> Okay, it might also be worth applying for a GNOME CVS account [1] so
> that it can be more easily translated and will get more exposure from a
> code point of view.

Ok, I shall.

Noah