Re: [E-devel] Priorities!

[Nathan I. <rb...@us...>]

On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 04:08:35PM +0900, Carsten Haitzler wrote:
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> now as for todo thigs that rbdpgn sent...
> things i don't agree with (as i agree with most):
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> evas: text hinting <- eh? evas does hinted truetype kerned text... ? what
> hinting? :)

You would need to ask xcomp about this, I wasn't quite clear on what he
meant by this either. His example was a comparison of Evas font
rendering to gnome, apparently Evas looked rather bad in comparison.

> estyle: i have it on my todo list to bring this into evas. the massive ob=
ject
> count (and repeated objects just at offsets and differing colours) really=
 should
> be done in evas. it's on the todo list - either in evas or via smart obje=
cts
> with PAINT methods that draw all the text. also i want to add "filters" t=
o evas
> that u can apply to an object... blur was my first candidate... :)

Yay! :-) Last we talked about this, there didn't seem to be a clear
decision on whether pixel level access to text would be available. If
that will be possible, then I'm all for estyle either a) moving into evas
or b) adapting to the availability of these features.

> as for docs. user docs right now aren't much of an issue as there is no "=
wm" to
> install or configure. the libs themselves needs docs. some are fully docu=
mented,
> some are partially documents, some are not documented at all. we need to =
compete
> the docs for libs - and this is library api/tutorial etc. docs. the docs =
need to
> go in the code as javadoc comments that doxygen processes. thats the prio=
rity in
> the doc world atm. anyone who likes docs is invited to discuss maybe a be=
tter
> way of generating the docs, but i think the javadoc format within the cod=
e is
> here to stay. it is an industry standard...

At this point, I would be more inclined to spend time writing more
actual documentation than messing the tool that generates the end docs.
API doc's are nice, but the "cookbook" is far more important. Ideally,
we would have a set of introductory articles for each major lib.

Lots to do indeed.

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