Hi
Perhaps I could make some comments here not as a developer, but as a user.
1) It's probably a good idea for us to start documenting the functions
we write and the APIs we create. For one, it's a reminder to think
about what specific problems the function/API is solving. Beyond that,
it helps someone unfamiliar with the code figure out what's going on,
and it helps them avoid misusing a particular function.
What I find missing is high-level documentation, not low-level. An
overall description of the way the system is organised and how the main
functions and structures should be used. But in my experience,
programmers won't produce documentation even when they are being paid to
do it, and no-one is being paid to work on Geeqie. Being realistic, I
don't think it is reasonable to expect people to do this.
2) We need to have a maximum line length. It can be long, sure, but
it's pretty obscene when there are lines so long that they wrap on my
26" widescreen monitor (layout_util.c is a pretty bad offender). I'm
going to suggest 160 characters; see * below.
Line length was important to me when I used 72-character terminals
nearly half a century ago. Now I use a visual editor with line-wrap
enabled. No matter what size window I use, the code is readable.
But I do find it very surprising that Geeqie has a non-standard coding
format. Layout consistency could be achieved if the developers selected
a standard format - maybe Allman or Whitesmith - and run all code
through a code beautifier before putting it in the repository. Time
spent on code formatting by hand is not a good use of time and will
result in inconsistencies.
May I also make a plea for the common user, people like me who can just
about do a configure/make.
Would it be possible for source tars (or even .deb files) of the latest
files to be put on the Geeqie homepage on sourceforge? Is it possible
for this do be done automatically whenever one of the git repositories
is updated?
I would also encourage the developers to try to make Geeqie at least as
good as GQview. There are two problems where I find GQview is
significantly better than Geeqie:
During copy/move/rename there is no thumbnail displayed when there is a
destination file conflict (I've made a patch to do this, which is ok for
me, but it is a poor technical solution to the problem).
When I work with folders containing several thousand files, any
operation on the files results in the view scrolling away from the area
I am working on. I guess this is the same as bug *3107316*, and I assume
it's because of gtktreeview being updated in the idle loop. But
whatever, when I'm doing this kind of work I have to switch back to GQview!
But again, one must be realistic, and a combination of GQview and Geeqie
works well for me as is.
Colin Clark..
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