Re: Beginner advice
Hashem <[email protected]>
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Yes jhbuild is pretty terrible for newcomers, but what better way is there to work on in-development code? On 03/04/2013 03:47 AM, Michael Hasselmann wrote: > On Sun, 2013-03-03 at 10:50 +0100, Sebastian Geiger wrote: >> You can take a look at git.gnome.org and pick a module there. Since we dont know what you are interested in its difficult to suggest a module. You could take a look at Gtk+ or glib if you are interested in improving the core plattform. Or look at gnome-shell, gnome-panel, mutter or metacity if you want to work on the frontend. >> >> The gnome games might be a good start too. >> >> For a quick start you should become familiar with jhbuild so you can build and run the modules. > Could we perhaps stop giving beginners the advice to use jhbuild? It's a > complex tool and things often break, which can be frustrating. On a > modern enough & well maintained distro, there is usually no need for > jhbuild if you only want to hack on some projects (and not the whole > Gnome stack). > > ciao Michael > > _______________________________________________ > gnome-love mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-love