Hello, I'm very interested in the Elisa project and I would like to write a component for it.
It would be a "root" component that should be on the "root" level with his own icon (like music player, video player, photo browser). I apt-getted the latest Elisa on Ubuntu Gutsy and it works great. I tried to download the tar.gz to play with it, unfortunatly launching "elisa.py" only display the splash screen, nothing more. Also, I found the documentation a bit confusing about how to write a plugin. After reading the whole stuff two or three times I still don't have any idea on how I can possibly start ! I'm probably not the brightest person in the world but it would be good to have a really copy/paste step by step howto that let you download/install/write your first "hello world" plugin. Lot of things are unclear : do I need to do anything with pigment ? The latest package are installed so I normally don't need them but the doc here is a bit confusing. My first goal is only to display a new icon in the main menu and, when you click on it, it will display a full screen picture. It is not useful at all but I think it's a good learning case. If I succed to do this and if you are interested, I can turn this into a clear howto for people like me :-) Anyway, my goal is to embbed one application we use at work into Elisa. I currently have a SDL C application so what would be über-cool is that there is a way to embbed an SDL application in an Elisa plugin. If not, I guess I will have to work but what do you think I must try ? Porting the SDL app to something else (GTK ?) ? Writing python bindings for the applications ? Thank you in advance, Lionel
