Re: projects for a beginner to work on?

[Brady Hegberg <bradyh bitstream net>]

I'm not sure if you want to jump right in with this, so I may be talking to 
somebody else, but I thought of one program that I'd like to see someone 
write.

I'd like to see a simple personal and easy to use personal back-up 
program.  Basically what I'd like to be able to do is drag a file or 
directory from the GMC to the backup window or icon and it would add that 
file or directory to the backup set.  When you run the backup it would 
create a tar.gz file wherever you tell it to.  Of course you could set it 
to run automatically.  I've seen something like this for windows and it 
would be cool to have it in Gnome.  Most backup program are overkill for 
the average user who just wants to automatically copy a few files and/or 
directories to a zip disk every now and again.  Basically I think the code 
for gTar or a similar program could be modified to do something like this.

Brady

PS:  I'd work on this myself but I'm trying to create an OCR program (at 
least the GUI component) and it's very slow going.

>I'm brand new to gnome/gtk programming. . .i.e. I've never done
>it before.  I do have some C/C++ programming experience, though
>I'd have to say I'm still a novice to intermediate programmer.  I
>am very much interested in getting involved with the GNOME
>project, but don't know where to start.  Any advice?  Should I
>just start looking at source?  Is there a project or app that I
>could work on that would be relatively gentle for a newcomer?  I
>learn quickly.
>
>For the sake of reference, I have a pretty modest system:  Intel
>P166, 40Mb RAM, 750 Mb hard drive space, 100Mb of which is free.
>
>Thanks!
>
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