MlView development news

Hello,

There have been a lot of code activity around the MlView 0.9 codeline lat=
ely.

Philippe Mecha=EF has pushed a lot of code to provide the application wit=
h a
graphical preferences editor, yay ! He has also started to re-work the pr=
eferences
management.

We have started to re-work the way we manages the different views today.
This view system rework is mostly to prepare some major changes to come, =
like switching
to the Gnome Development Library (GDL) for the support of Dockable window=
s for the views.

Hmmh, you should join me in asking Philippe to send all his screenshots
to the list :-)

A presentation of the view system is available at:
http://dodji.seketeli.free.fr/mlview/docs/view-system.txt. That doc is al=
so available
in the docs/ directory of the source tarball.
Okay, it is far from being complete, but well, it's better than nothing, =
and I accept patches
for the documentation too :-) In case you still don't know, the MlView pr=
oject is looking for
contributors :-)

I have started to integrate the old mlview xml nodes clipboard with the n=
ative
X clipboard. Now, when you copy/cut/ nodes from mlview, other apps can
consume these nodes in a serialized form. The converse is also true. This=
 only
works from the tree view right now, but I'll make it available from the s=
ource view soonish.

Nicolas Centa is also busy porting his work on the plugins system to the =
0.9 codeline.

Yay, this is what I call the "summer effect". Lots of bits are getting in=
.

In my quest of getting more feedback from users, I propose that we switch=
 to the odd/even release
scheme again. The 0.9.xx versions will then be flagged as "unstable devel=
opment releases", whereas
the coming 0.10.0 will be flagged as "stable". Stable only means that not=
hing but bugfixes will
be added to that branch.

So, now that you are warned now that 0.9.0 will be a "highly unstable dev=
elopment release", I think
I'll be pushing a tarball out soonish too :-) .

Oh, I forgot, I have pushed all the patches of  mlview--main--0.9 in the =
CVS. Feel free
to test it and send feedback.

Cheers,

Dodji.