About Vala: this is almost true (vala is not stable enough for too
complex apps), but we can at least rewrite some simple components of
LXDE in Vala, for example lxshortcut, which is not perfect yet and need
some tweaks (i read on the wiki that a new library - liblxshortcut - as
backend for lxshortcut is planned, is a good idea? which other apps will
use liblxshortcut?)
On 03/21/2012 05:53 AM, PCMan wrote:
This is quite true. When I'm learning GTK+, I read GtkTreeView
tutorial for several times in order to do some simple things with it.
Writing GUI apps with GTK+ and plain C is a pain and is really
error-prone.
Even when you use GtkBuilder, doing operations on GtkTreeView and
GtkTreeModal still require a lot of additional work.
I'm trying to migrate some parts of LXDE to vala to get more readable
code when suitable.
Code written in Vala is much much more readable and shorter than that
written in plain C.
Compile-time type safety and built-in support for dbus are also great
features of Vala. So I like it very much.
However, at the moment vala is not that reliable as it looks like.
It sometimes generates wrong C code that cant compile, or something
that compiles but causes crashes at runtime.
Besides, debugging vala programs requies that you digging into the
generate C code which is not readable.
Fixing broken vapi files is not of fun at all. Moreover, we don't have
the time to rewrite everything in vala.
So, to sum up, there is no silver bullet.
I'll try to look into this this issue weekend. :-(
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Axel FILMORE <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 20/03/2012 16:03, karl anliot wrote:
> IMHO the reason this bug hasn't been fixed is people filed the
bug against PCMANFM not libfm.
>
IMHO, this bug hasn't been fixed because GtkTreeView is one of the
most
complicated stuff in GTK+ and because it's too complicated to
write GUI
softwares in plain C, we really need modern languages like Vala to
write
reliable and maintainable softwares.
:)
--
Axel FILMORE
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