This report is a bit overdue and results-wise a bit boring, but I have a few minutes while we sort out why gnome-shell's jhbuild is broken to type it up. At this point the greatest challenge of working on gnome shell is that it is so broad a project. We have our own internal, clutter-based toolkit for custom widgets, which inherit things both from clutter and gtk, and are available in javascript, and interact in javascript with introspected libraries like gtk and gdbus. Sometimes I just don't even know which page in devhelp to turn to! Not to mention that everything is pretty bleeding edge.
Right now I have my hands in a couple of pots. There's the enormous message tray redesign going on that I will get to work on once the build gets unbroken, there's adding support for symbolic icons [1], revamping the way the notifications handle icons to both match the spec and allow other accompanying images, and implementing the example for rhythmbox. In the last week I spent a lot of time being frustrated by the way things are structured. There are some parts of the message tray code that are organized in ways that aren't conducive to things I need to do. It's always a struggle with programming to teach yourself to think in the paradigm someone else wrote into the program. With evaluations and my physics final coming up, I'll probably be putting a lot of time in at the desk in the next week and a half. -Matt [1] If anyone running debian sid knows a reason why gtk won't load symbolic icons (I have the icon set installed) let me know! That's a big thing holding that bug back... _______________________________________________ gnome-shell-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
