[Gpaint-develop] Fw: Re: gpaint changes

[Michael A. Meffie III]

Andy wrote:

> Michael, I think your changes definitely warrants a new release! I
> will try to make a new release this coming weekend.

Great!

> I will add you to the author list in the about box and remove the
> names of the two X paint authors.

Do you think we should remove the Xpaint authors? I guess we should have
a credits area somewhere for them. You could put me under the credits,
I haven't done that much for gpaint so far.

> Sorry I have not been active in working on gpaint recently due to
> work. I will commit more time to it.

That's not a problem at all. I would love to work on it more, but I was
recently given a lot more responsibilities at work. It doesn't look like
I will be doing much coding anymore at my day job, so gpaint now becomes
my only outlet for coding:) And I have a wife, 2 small children, and a
dog to keep me busy after work:)

Anyway, be sure to commit often so I get your changes. I try to do
things in small increments so I don't seriously break anything:)

I'm still working on the new brush feature. The current code is very
primitive and (fortunately) effects just util.c. 

>
> By the way, now GNOME 2 seems to have reached a usable state. I build
> GNOME 2 with this "garnome" tool and it is not troublesome any more.
> Download and compiling are very much automated. It seems to be a nicer
> environment than GNOME 1.4, even though now stability is still a
> problem.

I haven't been following the Gnome 2 development at all. I have a lot of
questions:

* What is the benefit to gpaint?

* Will we have to have 2 versions, one for gnome 1.x and one for
  gnome 2.x?

* Will we have to change a lot of code?

* What do I need to install?

* Will I be able to work on both?

>
> GNOME 2's release schedule has been changed so the general release
> will be on May 1. An "extra applications" release will come soon after
> that. I am thinking if we port to GNOME 2 and make sure the existing
> functions work well (fancy stuff, features that do not exist now, can
> wait), maybe we can ride the train and have gpaint included in the
> extra applications. How do you think about this? (We can try to port
> to GNOME 2 after the 0.2.2. release, or we can keep working on the 1.4
> platform and think about porting later.)
>

I think that is an excellent idea! We should try to lock down the
features and go for a release quality application for the extra apps.
Then gpaint would see a much larger user base. How would the release
numbering work? Would we skip version 1.0 and go to 2.0?

Idealy we need a "1.0" version of gpaint for both platforms. How
much difference is there? Can we have the same code base for both?


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