Hi all, I have been extremely busy lately, so I haven't gotten time to do much of anything, though I did fix a small bug in jwm-settings-manager when editing/adding buttons to the panel involving executing a program.
I have recently begun playing with Vala, which is a language for writting GTK+ apps in a syntax similar to Java/C#/haXe/etc... I am doing this for a few reasons: 1. you know me I like to learn about programming and so I have to keep learning things. 2. it is a really easy language to write apps really quickly with a lot of things already in place that I have written backend stuff for. I can combine it with Glade/GTK Builder to make interfaces fairly complicated really quickly. 3. Purism. In case you missed the events earlier in the year, Purism is building a fully GNU/Linux Phone based on Debian using GNOME/GTK+ (and probably KDE/Qt). I am so interested in this project I have been devoting time to learning GTK, as I am fully convinced this type of Phone OS is EXTREMELY needed in the world of Google/Apple phones. We need a free phone which does not mine data from us constantly. 4.ToriOS. Some of the apps I have wanted to make would be extremely difficult to do using FLTK, things like the volume/battery indicators (ours are Bash scripts I wrote using yad), but Vala compiles out to pure C code, so I am hoping to be able to remake the indicators in compiled code. I had been working to make FLTK create an indicator (which I did successfully, though it was not as good as the yad versions) and now that I have learned about Vala I find that I can most likely create the interface (including preferences/about/etc windows) pretty easily and compile them into pure C code. I have also been really busy with real life here! -- Regards -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev Post to : torios-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
