Send me your gtk+-questions!
I’m doing interviews with all gtk+ upstream-hackers during the gtk+-hackweek here in Berlin. Please send me the questions you would like to ask the people behind the toolkit used in GNOME. And please hurry with sending me those questions via email. But keep it brief, three questions at maximum and stick to questions about gtk+-features you would like to see (or rather their feasibility) and future-development. For example avoid overly generic questions like “What’s the next big thing coming in gtk+?” or “Why isn’t my favourite bug XYZ in current gtk+ fixed?”. Remember this is about gtk+’s future. I will take the liberty to pick a subset from all the questions send to me. This week is mainly about planning and hacking and not about asking these folks a 1000 questions. If you want you can add a hint about the person I should ask a particular question.
March 10th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Hi, just wanted to say that this is an awesome initiative Mirco.
Thanks a lot for doing them!
/Micke
March 10th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
How important will mac and win port be in the future? Will they be first class abstractions over platform or just an afterthought (like it seems to be now)
March 11th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
@Mikael: Thanks, you’re welcome. Sadly the whole video- and interview-thing does not allow me to do any hacking :/
March 21st, 2008 at 2:00 am
I would like to know what the future of gtk holds for cairo integration, whether work is being done on creating alternative cairo based treeviews etc ?
March 25th, 2008 at 10:28 am
@tretle: Well I don’t know of anything particular in that domain, but right now you are albe to write your own treeview doing any kind of cairo-based drawing.
March 26th, 2008 at 7:12 am
Hmmm… should have been more specific. What I really meant to ask was if you knew of any initiatives on the gtk developers side on creating a standard pallet of cairo tree views etc in which application developers can use in their projects at will. Theres no avoiding cairo in the future of gnomes interface, but some standardization should be brainstormed now instead of a couple of months or even years too late. By cairo based tree views I mean new and different ways of representing data within a gtk box, like what the banshee guys are doing as of late, or you with the sparkle project. Maybe different views should be thought out, project nemo for example is a completely different way of browsing files in gnome, Will gtk developers stop and think about these new ui interactions and develop a standard.
Would be nice, then nautilus could provide the same features as project nemo plus the option of other views.
December 4th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Hi, I need some help with gtk application. I would like to write a simple viewer for some 2d data and you might provide some valuable insight on what is the best way to achieve it.
August 10th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
can any of the guys help me out by posting the interview question oN GTK+..