Re: New GNOME Sample Application

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Murray Cumming">

> gnome-hello should be able to demo most things anyway, with less
> distraction. If gedit isn't kosher, then it should be. Isn't that a
> separate issue?

Kind of, but if we want to use it as the example app, it should be given
"special treatment". Basically, there are a few remaining issues to polish
up before we'd want to say, "do stuff like this".

> I'd guess that gedit has other code that might distract people.

Maybe, but it's working, useful, practical code, not a playfield of
imagination hackery.

> If it's going to be an example, then there will need to at least be some
> docs pointing people to certain parts of the code to see how to do certain
> thing

That's precisely the intention. Hopefully we can base developer
documentation on the gedit codebase, and suggest to tutorial writers that
they use it to demonstrate GNOME programming style, methods, etc.

> gnome-hello isn't meant to be exciting - It's meant to be simple.
> Actually it should be even simpler. The multiple application instances
> stuff is a distraction.
> 
> And what's broken about gnome-hello now anyway, apart from the sgml docs
> errors that you currently get when building it? 

It's not necessarily broken. But to use it effectively, it has to be
maintained well. We can guarantee that for gedit far more safely than g-h,
because it's Real Software.

Don't you prefer practical examples to pixieland play toys? :) [1]

- Jeff

[1] No offence to the gnome-hello hackers, of course, who surely have their
feet firmly on the ground.

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