Re: Gtk+/GNOME lecture: I want feedback

[David Tabachnikov (NetHunter)]

Thats my personal preference, but:

Moshe Zadka wrote:
> 
> Almost nobody mailed me to say what he'd want in the lecture.
> Here's a couple of questions I want feedback on.
> 
> Would you like to know more about the philosophy, or the implementation?

Both, but more about implementation.

> How much time would you like me to devote to the non-GUI aspects?
> What language would you want the examples to be in? (If there are any
> Perl/Gtk+ hackers out there, please contact me about translating the
> examples to Perl)
> 

C/Perl I guess. Because your a big preferer of Python, how about making
the examples in python, but please make a quick introduction to python
before that. You could also use Glade and stuff.

> Any specific questions about Gtk+ and GNOME are welcome too: they'd at
> least give me direction about what people would like me to do.
> 

I think you should give pointers to the GNOME UI guidelines, some
aspects of the philosophy, (Like Fitts Law and things like that).

> Also, I will probably *not* talk about the following subjects:
> 
> - gnorba and bonobo: these are GNOME's distributed components
> infrstucture. It's not yet in common enough use, and the design is
> somewhat fluid at this stage.
> 

I really would like to you to explain what are they, (Ok, I know what
bonobo is, but whats gnorba?), what are their usage in GNOME, and how
can they help a developer.

> - i18n: recently Pango and Gtk+ have started to be integrated. I'd hate to
> talk about a work in progress, it seems better to wait until it
> stabilizes.
> 

I agree, but you should explain in theory what can we expect to be
changin in the api, and things like that.

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