Re: Re: Roadmap

Thorsten Roggendorf wrote:

>Hi
>
>I have been lurking on this list for some time without posting and have
>contributed nil to multisync and opensync, so you you might as well
>ignore my comments.
>
>If you want publicity, you might want to update the multisync page and
>provide a link to opensync. I suppose multisync gets much more hits than
>opensync. BTW, I just looked at the multisync page and it's broken. You
>ge a directory view. You can still view the page by selecting news.php
>there, but this should really be fixed (sorry, if you have just been
>working on it).
>  
>
no. didnt see this before. the question is: why did sf.net stop 
accepting index.php as the starting document?

i tried changing the mode or changing the ending .html but nothing 
worked. Does anyone have a idea?

>I have some experience with gui design. Skript is definitely the way to
>go. With ruby/python you get better results faster than with lower level
>languages plus you get portability if you choose the right toolkit.
>The built in toolkits are ugly (they are all based on tk from tcl/tk). I
>have never used WXWindows, so I'll not comment on it.
>Toolkit bindings for QT or gtk have the disadvantage, that you add
>requirements without gaining much if you don't aim for thorough desktop
>integration. They are particularly fiddly to install on Windows.
>When using ruby I'd recommend FoxTk. It is particularly easy to
>implement, it looks OKish (it does not mimic other tks so it will look a
>bit alien anywhere, which is the sole disadvantage). And it comes with
>the ruby installer for Windows, which is big plus.
>When you want to use python, you should investigate which of the more
>advanced tks is most commonly used with python. I don't think python has
>something like like fox - a de facto standard advanced tk included in
>standard Windows installer. Thus any tk with its own Windows installer
>would suffice.
>You should also look at swig to get opensync language bindings for the
>scripting language of your choice (http://www.swig.org/).
>
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>
so far i have used pyrex for the bindings with good result, but i think 
that swig is probably the way to go so we can provide wrappers for other 
languages as well.

About the gui:
I have no personal preference as long as the toolkit looks (fairly) good 
and is cross platform.

@thorsten
You said that you have experience with gui design. Would you be willing 
to help a bit when we start implementing the gui (my gui programming 
talents are... suboptimal :)

>  Cheers
>
>    Thorsten
>
>
>
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