please, go ahead :)

On 24 Jul 2014, at 10:23, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote:

> If no one raises objections, I would like to start on refactor / cleanup
> nautilus code.
> 
> This includes:
> 
> renaming / recategorizing
> solve code critics shown in Critics Browser
> split classes (AbstractNautilusUI has  427 methods 24 instvars )
> stronger separation between the browser model, browser state
> and browser UI.
> 
> review event handling and UI updating
> (sometimes there is a difference between what the UI shows
> as selected and the selection the model(s) holds
> 
> maybe:
> create one package pane widget for package and groups
> (therefore move all that package vs groups handling from
> nautilus ui to that widget)
> merge Nautilus and PackageTreeNautilus
> 
> (I don't consider all of Nautilus bad code, it has well
> designed parts, it just has grown meanwhile...)
> 
> How to update the code?
> 
> Working with slices makes it easier to find changes 
> that introduces new bugs.
> Otherwise it takes time to do it in such small steps and I don't
> know if those changes are reviewed at all.
> 
> So, I would try to group the changes.
> 1. code critics
> 2. renameing/ simple refactoring
> 3. ....
> 
> 
> nicolai
> 
> 
> 


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