Re: Potential GNOME IDE

[Michael Ikey Doherty <michael i doherty intel com>]

On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 13:31 +0000, Michael Ikey Doherty wrote:
> On Fri, 2014-01-03 at 21:44 -0600, meg ford wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Sébastien Wilmet <swilmet gnome org>
> > wrote:
> >         
> >         On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 08:02:40PM +0000, Michael Ikey Doherty
> >         wrote:
> >         > Heh, true enough. I must admit when I saw the mockup artwork
> >         for the
> >         > potential GNOME IDE I somewhat drooled. Is that project
> >         still "a-go",
> >         > and if so is there somewhere where I could provide a little
> >         help?
> >
> > You might want to ask on #gnome-design to see if they are aware of
> > anyone working on the IDE. I remember hearing a little about Christian
> > Hergert's gnome-builder project but other than that I don't believe
> > the IDE has gone beyond the mockup stage. But I haven't been on irc
> > much lately, so I may be wrong :)
> >
> >
> > Meg Ford
> Thanks for the heads up. I've been thinking about it, and I believe
> something could be made of this. However.. I think the name
> "gnome-builder" is slightly deceptive. This gives the impression of
> building GNOME, which it does not. That's jhbuild's job. Perhaps
> "gnome-creator" is more apt.
>
> Another thing: Glade needs to support GtkHeaderBar by default. I'd argue
> too that it should be the default option for Application windows, but
> thats a bit out of scope for this conversation.
>
> The edit view is seriously limited by the fact it is reliant on tabs for
> primary navigation. A TreeView (or similar) should be employed for a
> project overview, though we could actually hide this by default in a
> GtkRevealer. Given most of us opt for a visible right sidebar with an 80
> character width, I'd suggest an OSD style button on the right hand side
> to expose the revealer, using a GtkOverlay (in fact, identical to the
> setup in gnome-weather.
>
> I'll prepare a mockup of this today, and post for opinions. I'm happy to
> undertake a GNOME IDE project, though perhaps at first keep it outside
> of GNOME. Also I do not use GNOME's coding style, so perhaps an
> agreement could be reached there :) (I personally use 8 spaces for
> indent, function calls have no spaces before "(", etc. Think Connman,
> but no tabs)
>
> - Ikey

As promised, preliminary mockup of what I meant with the sidebar:
https://plus.google.com/+IkeyDoherty/posts/cJF7N9djmZz

- Ikey

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