David Chisnall wrote: > 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? I'll be there, which reminds me that I should add myself to the list of people available there. I think I could fill 10 minutes talking about GNUstep on OpenBSD, but I usually use windowmaker, and haven't yet looked into themes at all ;)
cheers, Sebastian > > > >>>> - 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 > _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
