On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 05:12:28PM +0100, Olav Vitters wrote: > GTK+ has been created in 1996 for the GIMP — the > GNU Image Manipulation Program — but has quickly
Maybe: "- a photo retouching, image composition and image authoring program -" > become a general-purpose library used by a large Maybe something "and quickly evolved into" > number of applications including the GNU project’s > GNOME desktop. [..] > Architecture Overview > > Over time GTK+ has been built up to be based on > other libraries, also developed by the GTK+ team: > • Cairo, a library for 2D graphics with support for > multiple output devices (including the X Window > System, Win32) while producing a consistent output Wayland, OS X? > GLib – the Core Library > > Firstly, GLib provides common data structures: > • Single and doubly linked lists. > • Hash tables. [..] > • And a few other data structures. I'm not sure, but with bullet points shouldn't you do: * bla; * bar; * foo. ? > GLib contains also lots of utilities: Remove "also" IMO, or before "contains" Wondering about "lots" or "loads" > • String and Unicode manipulation. > • Date and time functions. > • A command-line option parser. > • Perl-compatible regular expressions. > • An XML parser. > • A unit-test framework. > • And many other utilities. Again maybe the ;, ;, ;, . ? > GObject – an Object System > > Most modern programming languages come with their > own native object systems and additional fundamental > algorithmic language constructs. Just as GLib > serves as an implementation of such fundamental types > and algorithms (linked lists, hash tables and so forth), > GObject provides the required implementations of a s/the required/an/ ? and s/implementations/implementation/ ? > flexible, extensible, and intentionally easy to map (into > other languages) object-oriented framework for C. The > substantial elements that are provided can be summarized > as: [..] > GIO – Input/Output on Steroids > > GIO is striving to provide a modern, easy-to-use Virtual s/is striving to provide/provides/ As we should not be doubting what we provide. > File System (VFS) API that sits at the right level > in the library stack, as well as other generally useful > APIs for desktop applications (such as networking and > D-Bus support). The goal is to provide an API that Above sentence seems a bit too long. s/The goal/It was created to/ IMO > is so good that developers prefer it over raw POSIX > calls. Among other things that means using GObject. > It also means not cloning the POSIX API, but providing The DBus and VFS seems like it should be split out a bit IMO. > The GTK+ Widget Toolkit > > GTK+ provides a flexible theming system with a CSSlike > syntax. The default theme is Adwaita, used by the > GNOME desktop, but other themes can be created > so an application can be well integrated with other > desktop environments or mobile devices. This gives the impression that e.g. GTK+ by default looks out of place on anything other than GNOME. E.g. bad in KDE, Mac OS X and Windows. I don't think that is the case though. > About Versions s/About Versions/Release schedule and versioning scheme/ > There are new GLib, GObject, GIO, GTK+ and > GNOME stable releases every six months, around Maybe: "Every six months there are new..." ? > March and September. A version number has the form > X.Y.Z, where “Y” is even for stable versions and is > odd for unstable versions. A new minor stable version > (e.g. 3.14.0 ! 3.14.1) doesn’t add new features, > only translation updates, bug fixes and performance > improvements. For a library, a new major version number > (“X” in X.Y.Z) generally means there has been an > API break, but fortunately previous major versions are s/, but fortunately previous/. Previous/ or s/, but fortunately previous/. To address this, previous/ > parallel-installable with the latest version. > It’s recommended to use the latest versions for newly- > written code. > More information: http://www.gtk.org/ This gives the impression it is part of the versioning scheme section. Could it be made to appear different? -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ engagement-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/engagement-list
