Joel Holdsworth wrote:
> 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.
i agree with richard, the one who does it, decides (while acknowledge,
propose that first)
gtk is nice, did you had a look at lua-gtk, seems to be sexy to make the
gui in a small scripting language. what do you think?
About "how to get involved?" .. just clone the git, look at the
design/docs/wikis, communicate and propose your ideas and start hacking.
Christian
(little short now, more tomorrow)
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