Hi Israel,
I'm glad you are still active. Thanks for the update. Cheers, Jack ________________________________ From: Torios-dev <torios-dev-bounces+jackdtrice=outlook....@lists.launchpad.net> on behalf of Nio Wiklund <nio.wikl...@gmail.com> Sent: 12 November 2017 7:28 AM To: Israel Cc: torios- dev Subject: Re: [Torios-dev] Quick Update Den 2017-11-12 kl. 01:07, skrev Israel: > 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! > Thanks for this update, Israel :-) Best regards Nio -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev ToriOS Developers in Launchpad<https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev> launchpad.net The Core team of Developers for ToriOS packaging. http://torios.top/ Post to : torios-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev ToriOS Developers in Launchpad<https://launchpad.net/~torios-dev> launchpad.net The Core team of Developers for ToriOS packaging. http://torios.top/ More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp ListHelp - Launchpad Help<https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp> help.launchpad.net Launchpad allows a team to set up a discussion mailing list which is open to all members of the team. For the technically minded, Launchpad mailing lists are managed ...
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