Hi Sharat, Getting involved is pretty easy. As Chandni says, we track bugs on bugzilla.gnome.org - the easiest place to start is with bugs marked gnome-love or trivial.
If you need help, join us on IRC, #empathy on irc.gnome.org is where the Empathy developers hang out. We cover most timezones, so someone is usually awake and available. Connect and hang around and eventually someone will be able to answer your questions. It's certainly possible to learn GTK+ as you go, but there's also the GTK+ tutorial on library.gnome.org, which is how I learned GTK+ many years ago. > I use empathy (on ubuntu 11.04) and I always felt that the indication > (the image in the tab bar) when the other person is typing is not > easily noticeable. So I decided to try and change it to something like > displaying 'user is typing...' as in other chat applications. I > downloaded the source code and was overwhelmed going through it. I > found the function updating the chat window tab but I couldn't > understand as I am entirely new to GTK. As for this specific issue, take a look at empathy-chat, empathy-chat-view and empathy-theme-adium as places to start. Empathy is a massive code base, quite complex and typically also requires understanding of Telepathy. Don't be upset if it takes you a while to get your head around it, I still don't know all of it. If you find Empathy is a bit large to cut your teeth on, there are lots of other, smaller projects in GNOME who are desperate for contributors (the gnome-utils come to mind). Hope all of this helps, --danni -- Danielle Madeley Software Developer, Collabora Ltd. Melbourne, Australia www.collabora.co.uk _______________________________________________ telepathy mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/telepathy
