Re: Glade release to include GtkHeaderBar?

[Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>]

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Joey Hain <hain joseph gmail com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me>
> wrote:
>
> > If it is a problem with developer resources, perhaps I can try
> > to find someone who is willing to help out provided there is a mentor?
>
>
> I'd be willing to work on this. I tried to get into GNOME development
> previously, but never got anywhere because I was moving and starting a new
> job at the time, and the maintainer for the project I was working with was
> only available about once a week. Mainly, though, I didn't really use the
> apps I was trying to contribute to and I've been told many times by others
> to "scratch my own itch" when it comes to contributing.

Hats off to you, sir.  Much appreciated.  Mail me, and I will get you
integrated into the fold. :-)  Our volunteers are our most precious
resource and anybody willing to put their name in the hat to help out
GNOME deserves first class support in doing it.



> For example, when trying to write my own GNOME app in Vala recently, I had
> to resort to reading blog posts and the source code of existing apps to
> incorporate a header bar with composite templates (which I don't mind, but I
> think will scare a lot of developers away when other platforms make it much
> easier). It was also frustrating when I tried to open the .ui file of a
> GNOME app in glade and was told header bar wasn't supported.

I did that as well.  I was trying to write something and I wanted to
write it as a GNOME 3 style app in a HIG way.  Imagine my surprise
when that took a ton of personal time that should not have happen.
The tool chain we have is inadequate.  This is what we identified in
the past couple of Developer Experience hackfests and as well as West
Coast Hackfest.  We need to build it.  So again, thank you, we are
grateful for helping us, your work will help move this forward.

> While still somewhat limited, I have some free time now, and I would like to
> use it to help make development easier for other newcomers by working on
> adding support for new widgets to glade, especially since it's also used by
> that awesome new GNOME Builder project. I'm also willing to write
> documentation as I learn stuff to implement my own projects.

Please email me, I will get you the mentors you need to get yourself
going quickly.  I will rope in the the glade maintainer, and Christian
Hergert and hopefully get this stuff integrated in the next cycle.
Thank you!

sri