OK, here's a patch to make the Gnome dialogs work again. I hope I've created it properly :-). It is just a straight port of what was there and doesn't add any new functionality (apart from one v. small bug fix).
All feedback very gratefully received. I'll start taking a look at some of the other GUI classes when I get a chance. Cheers, Martin. On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 20:53, Angus Leeming wrote: > Martin Craig wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > First of all, thanks for LyX! I used it to write my PhD thesis and I'm > > sure it saved me hours of fiddling with latex. > > > > Anyway, more recently I've been looking to contribute to an open source > > project, and I thought that a good thing to attempt would be to revive > > the Gnome frontend to LyX. Most of my programming experience is with C > > and Java so my C++ is a little rusty, but I guess it's all good > > experience... > > > > So far I've got a recent CVS version and have fiddled with the Gnome > > code enough to make the currently implemented dialogs work. Hopefully I > > can add the others gradually and then maybe tackle the main window. > > > > What I really wanted to know is whether anybody else working on this. I > > assumed from previous messages that nobody is currently, but I don't > > want to duplicate work that someone else is doing quietly in the > > background... > > > > Anyway in the meantime I'll carry on as I am (pretty slowly probably) > > and let you know when I've got a patch worth looking at. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Martin. > > Hello, Martin. Welcome aboard. > > I'd suggest sending in patches little and often. Big patches tend to get > slow replies because people rarely have the energy to consider them > carefully. Small patches, especially from a new contributor, are likely to > be scutinised carefully; you'll benefit from scores of useful(?) tips and > suggestions ;-) > > I'd suggest that you try and implement one or two or the missing dialogs > yourself and then be brave and have a go at the main window. Missing > dialogs can be added at leisure but without a main window you have nothing. > > Good luck and don't be afraid to ask dumn questions ;-) > -- > Angus > >
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