Re: How to port applets to GNOME2 (again)

[Darryl Rees <rees netnam vn>]

It's a lot easier to write docs if you properly understand the api (and 
more importantly the underlying architecture, etc), and it can be 
extremely difficult to understand certain apis without decent 
documentation :-) It's just a pity that not all folks with good 
authoring skills are l33t coders and not all l33t coders are good at 
writing documentation :-(

Cheers,
Darryl.

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 10:03:46PM +0100, Ole Laursen wrote:
>  
>
> > If people really consider it a boring task, I can see that it is
> > unfair of me to suggest that they spend their time with it. But else I
> > don't understand your attitude.
> >    
>
> It's not an attitude, just the facts of how open source
> works. Everyone does what they consider highest priority. What didn't
> get done is what no one did. There's no central command & control that
> provides a rationale for the big-picture "what got done," it is simply
> the sum of what people did.
>
> So, the way to be sure something happens is to do it yourself.
> Richard Stallman's answer to "when will foo be done?" has always been
> "faster if you help."
>
> FWIW there's a fairly serious effort to unify all the important widget
> APIs into GTK which has a full-docs-on-all-new-API policy. This is one
> reason some people don't prioritize libgnomeui docs very high.
>
> Havoc
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