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

On 24/9/24 05:06, Michael Eager wrote:
> 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.

<https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/GooCanvas>

"GooCanvas is a canvas widget for GTK+ that uses the cairo 2D library 
for drawing."

Could replace with:

<https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/class.DrawingArea.html>

"GtkDrawingArea is a widget that allows drawing with cairo."


If there's an old gtk port of DDD i can download, i'll make it work on 
gtk4 when i get time.