On 13 Dec 2010, at 15:24, Quentin Mathé wrote: >> I poked DBUSKit a bit and it definitely looks like a thing that's worth >> advertising and some demos. If Niels doesn't want to give a long talk, >> maybe we could have a few 'system integration' lightning talks and have >> other people talk about the UXTheme / GNOME Theme stuff and anything else of >> relevance? > > Agreed. Having a talk about theming even if it's short sounds important, at > least to show GNUstep is really motivated into supporting high-quality themes > and integration in various environments. > The DBusKit fits well in this perspective and the app example Niels wrote > seemed pretty exciting to me. Few yours ago, I wrote some DBus code (using > the basic C lib and the glib-based lib) and it wasn't a completely pleasant > experience.
So, can we schedule an hour for four 15 minute talks (10 minutes + setup / questions) about using GNUstep with other environments? Anyone else want to add some topics for this? >>> - EtoileText (… I'm especially curious about the possibility to leverage >>> OMeta to write the tree transform rules) >>> - LanguageKit Progresses >> >> I could talk about either of these. Most of the changes in LanguageKit >> since last year have been polishing off rough edges and a few optimisations >> (most of these can also apply to Objective-C, but because it's so hard to >> drive them from GNUstep Make we have the amusing situation that Smalltalk is >> a lot faster than Objective-C for some things). >> >> EtoileText might be of interest to other people. For anyone who hasn't been >> following the Étoilé blog, I'm using it to generate the ePub version of my >> upcoming book from LaTeX sources, complete with clang-driven syntax >> highlighting for the code samples (which looks much nicer than the LaTeX >> listings package, since it can distinguish typedefs, macros, and so on). > > If I had to make a choice, I'd rather pick EtoileText since I know close to > nothing about it. But that's my personal preference, I suppose people who > attend to the talks might be more interested to hear about LanguageKit and > recent progresses such as EScript. It's more trendy in a way ;-) I'd be happy to talk about EtoileText, and maybe a little bit about SourceCodeKit at the same time. EScript is not all that interesting. It's a tech demo rather than something I'd recommend people actually use. I've got some out-of-tree optimisations for it that should bring it closer to speed parity with Smalltalk, but I've not finished them because I'm not really interested in it as a language (I'm much more keen to finish ObjMeta, which I also haven't had time for...). David -- This email complies with ISO 3103 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
