[gnome-love] Re: [gnome-love]Wow.

[Josh Steiner <joschi eds org>]

Hey everybuddy, a brief introduction.

I've been floating around the Gnome community not doing too much for a
couple years now, always wanting to do a bit more.  The problem that
always prevented me from jumpin in and doing some coding is feeling like I
would be stepping on people toes, or worse yet that I would implement
something only to find out that it either is obsoleted or redundant.  
Looks like this list is exactly what I need.

I've done a bit of work on terminatorX ... nothing to huge yet.  Basically
I am about 90% done writing a little event list editor for it.  Nothing
huge but nice.

One weekend i decided to add an auto popup delay to compliment the auto
hide delay in the panel, but have never gotten around to submitting a
patch.  I use it a lot and find it makes autohide panels a lot friendlier
(helps avoid that dance you always do when going for a menu or button and
overshooting a little, hence triggering the panel to popup and block the
thing you went to click in the first place :)  I suppose that that would
be my first request, how would I go about getting this in for the next
release?  I imagine I am going to have to install gtk1.3 et all and
make sure it works with that...

Ok, thats a good question, do people run into any complications having
both gtk1.2 and gtk1.3 installed?

The next thing i have done was clean up the interface to the gtcd and the
cd panel app a lot... but i found a bunch of bugs in them and found that
they both had a ton of redundant code.  I would like to merge the two into
one codebase.  Is that stepping on anyones toes?

Thanks folks.

Joschi

On 22 May 2001, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> So we got a massive ammount of people subscribing to the list in the
> last few days after the GNOME summary was posted.  I am psyched!
>
> So lets just give a quick introduction to the list.
>
> Basically, gnome-love is a list where we will be working with
> newcomers that want to contribute to GNOME, and we will help them
> through the whole process: maybe from the very first contributions to
> become full fledged hackers (if that is what they want).
>
> I strongly recommend you to check http://www.gnome.org/todo for
> available tasks.  If you have ideas about tasks that you want to get
> added, just click on the `Add' button (I think it is public, if not,
> mail joakim gnome org to get him to add your task).
>
> If you have noticed problems in GNOME, you are not alone.  We all
> have.  Lets make GNOME perfect, and lets make GNOME the best desktop
> available, and the most usable.  
>
> Do not be afraid of criticizing something in GNOME and offering your
> ideas and opinions.  We want to hear them, and we want you to be part
> of the process that will improve our loved desktop.
>
> So, lets get the ball rolling.
>
> Miguel.
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