On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 18:36 +0100, Herman Robak wrote: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:16:58 +0100, Joel Holdsworth > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm thinking of getting involved with development on > > cinelerra/luminerra, so I thought I'd say hello on this mailing list. > > For the last year or so, I've been working with the inkscape guys, > > honing some UI issues. At the moment though, given that they now have > >> 100 developers on team, it looks to me like they have enough people, > > and things seem to be going along nicely. > > > > My bread and butter is really GUI work, and so I'd be really interested > > in getting involved with the Gtkmm or Qt migration - if that's still > > happening. In GUIs I always try and work toward intuitive, tidy, > > rule-abiding, quality; and so it seems to me that maybe I'd have > > something to contribute Cinelerra. > > > > For myself, I've mostly worked in Win32 and Gnome. I've used gtkmm a > > fair bit, and I would say that it is excellent. So is it possible to get > > involved with the UI work? and if so how can I do that? > > I would consider a partial replacement of the current GUI in Cinelerra > 2.x, starting with one of the dialogs. Anything else will likely be a > complex instability hell for a developer who has not delved deeply into > the innards of Cinelerra yet. > > The one dialog I think is in most dire need of refactoring is the > Record dialog. But that can be daunting, as it interfaces with > hardware like DV cameras and video grabbers. Maybe the Format and > Render dialogs? >
That sounds like a good strategy. Replace all the dialogs, one by one until they're all migrated. Then maybe some kind of branch could happen to convert over the main UI. But I suppose the first question is "what GUI toolkit should be chosen?". My vote would be for gtk(mm) - but obviously this is a decision for the established development team to decide. _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
