Re: [gnome-love] At last.................... I made it.......

[Melinda <melinda_sayang hotpop com>]

> Hi!
>
> (I haven't tried the program yet, may you provide some screenshots?)
I have uploaded screenshot. Please take a look.

> This is great: this feature has been requested many times and I
> personally think it is not only eye candy, but it is also very useful to
> make the different workspaces easily recognizable.
You know some people switch from Gnome to KDE because of this. :(
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=170692


> It would be even nicer if maybe you could try to get it integrated with
> the core gnome components, in other words integrate it with the
> wallpaper selector that it is included in gnome-control-center. 
I would love to but......

> That
> would probably mean use plain gtk instead of gtkmm 
This is the problem. I hate coding in C. I just wonder the reason you
said this is Gnome desktop is developed in C and is stupid to rewrite (
although just one component like gnome control center ) in another
language ( although C++ is brother from C ) or it is impossible for non
C programmer to join Gnome desktop development team ( to contribute ). I
thought the reason people to make GTK+ binding is to make non C
programmer to contribute easily to Gnome project. Please correct me if I
am wrong. Is it still possible for non C programmer like me ( I love C++
) to contribute to Gnome desktop project? It is stupid if I have to move
from C++ to C just because I want to do this. 


> and it would not be
> "your" program anymore, 
doesn't matter to me. But you know, assume I write this program in C and
pure GTK+ so the languange is not issue anymore. Assume my program is
stable enough to merge in Gnome. I doubt they ( Gnome developers ) would
like this feature included in Gnome control centre because they would
like to keep Gnome as simple as possible. Their motto is KISS ( Keep It
Simple Stupid ). Yeah, I disagree with them because M$ will put this
feature into Longhorn so each virtual desktop will have each wallpaper.
KDE already have it. So why not Gnome?

> but I'm sure that your pride would be satisfied
> by seeing your work used by millions of people and shipped with linux
> distributions!
Of course............. Ok, here what will I do.... I will improve this
program so this program will be stable. This program is in alpha stage
now..... :) After stable enough, I m looking into possibility to merge
into Gnome control centre and if it is not possible ( because I write
with gtkmm not pure gtk+ ), I am open minded if someone would like to
rewrite this program into C ( pure gtk+ ) in order to merge into Gnome
desktop. I will help him. 

That's all babe............

> ciao
>       paolo