Re: Suggest Adding the Translation Work for ddd to the GNU Translation Project

On 9/23/24 11:12 AM, Klaus wrote:
> What I want to tell: It looks for ME, that gnome/gtk isn't a stable
> development platform. We see feature removal development and also a lot
> of quality issues. Touch did not work for around 4 month now and it
> looks that nobody is working on the problem. The bug entry is open but
> no further comments added there.

Thanks for the heads up and letting us know your experience.

A former maintainer created a port of DDD to GTK in 2009.  My 
co-maintainer made a few changes so that it would compile and he 
indicates that it kinda/sorta works.  I don't know what version of GTK 
it uses, but based on the porting date, it's likely long obsolete.

I'm not happy with the coding style of the GTK port, using #ifdefs to 
allow the same code base to be compiled for GTK or X11/Motif.  I believe 
that even when built for GTK that the X11/Motif or X11/Xt libraries are 
still needed, which is undesirable.  There is a lot of DDD code which 
depends on X11 resource management and other functions, such as string 
management.

If multiple GUI platforms are to be supported, I prefer an abstraction 
layer design.  On the other hand, if we abandon X11/Motif completely, 
this is an unnecessary layer of code in a program which currently has 
other unnecessary layers.

Q:  If not GTK (some version), do you have a recommendation?

It seems that there are a few choices, including qt and wxWidgets.  I've 
used and done some development on WxPython and have a superficial 
understanding of the slots/signals design in qt.  Both seem to have a 
significantly different design from X11/Motif, so porting may be much 
more complex than replacing a Motif display window call with a wxWindows 
or qt display window call.


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Michael Eager