Re: Order of widgets when displayed on top of each other

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 10:40:48AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: 
> but when there is no sign that you can ever succeed in adding a widget
> unless you are part of the core team, the motivation to try is a bit
> hard to come up with. and that really *is* my perception: if you're
> not owen or havoc or tim, don't bother thinking you can add a new
> widget to GTK+. i know i'm not the only person who thinks this,
> although i'm open to the possibility that its wrong.

Tim and I hardly ever contribute to GTK+ at the moment; the main
contributors are Matthias Clasen, Soeren Sandmann, Kristian Reitveld,
James Henstridge, and other names like that.

What it takes to get stuff in is mostly to be persistent going through
design iterations. Discuss intitial strategy via bugzilla,
gtk-devel-list, and/or IRC; write code; post code to list; discuss;
change code; post code; discuss; etc. If at any point the process
stalls insert more posting and/or bug-pinging until you get the
response you were blocking on. Putting the prototype code in libegg is
good too, and getting people to try using it.

If you just say "here's some code I already finished, include it if
you want, I won't make changes though" it has no chance of inclusion,
that's true.

Havoc