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Re: [Lxde-list] PCManFM development and stage - Frequent crashes
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From: Stephen S. <eco...@fa...> - 2012-03-21 19:40:36
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Ok, but all these applications (1, 2, 3, 4) shouldn't just call lxshortcut with some arguments? Btw, i'll happy to start working on it (first as a library). Regards, Stephen Smally On 03/21/2012 05:52 PM, PCMan wrote: > Potential users of liblxshortcut are: > 1. pcmanfm/libfm > 2. lxpanel, to edit application menu items > 3. a menu editor, if any > 4. lxsession-edit, to edit autostart apps > 5. other programs which requires editing of desktop entries > 6. lxshortcut itself > > I don't know how to make it a good lib yet. Otherwise writing it with > vala should be fast. > Do you want to do it? > BTW, I noted that a nice icon chooser dialog was provided by glade-3 > already so we don't have to make our own. > By removing some gnome deps with trivial changes, it can be used > independently in lxshortcut. > > On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Stephen Smally > <eco...@fa... <mailto:eco...@fa...>> wrote: > > About Vala: this is almost true (vala is not stable enough for too > complex apps), but we can at least rewrite some simple components > of LXDE in Vala, for example lxshortcut, which is not perfect yet > and need some tweaks (i read on the wiki that a new library - > liblxshortcut - as backend for lxshortcut is planned, is a good > idea? which other apps will use liblxshortcut?) > > > On 03/21/2012 05:53 AM, PCMan wrote: >> This is quite true. When I'm learning GTK+, I read GtkTreeView >> tutorial for several times in order to do some simple things with it. >> Writing GUI apps with GTK+ and plain C is a pain and is really >> error-prone. >> Even when you use GtkBuilder, doing operations on GtkTreeView and >> GtkTreeModal still require a lot of additional work. >> I'm trying to migrate some parts of LXDE to vala to get more >> readable code when suitable. >> Code written in Vala is much much more readable and shorter than >> that written in plain C. >> Compile-time type safety and built-in support for dbus >> are also great features of Vala. So I like it very much. >> However, at the moment vala is not that reliable as it looks like. >> It sometimes generates wrong C code that cant compile, or >> something that compiles but causes crashes at runtime. >> Besides, debugging vala programs requies that you digging into >> the generate C code which is not readable. >> Fixing broken vapi files is not of fun at all. Moreover, we don't >> have the time to rewrite everything in vala. >> So, to sum up, there is no silver bullet. >> I'll try to look into this this issue weekend. :-( >> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Axel FILMORE >> <axe...@gm... <mailto:axe...@gm...>> wrote: >> >> On 20/03/2012 16:03, karl anliot wrote: >> > IMHO the reason this bug hasn't been fixed is people filed >> the bug against PCMANFM not libfm. >> > >> >> IMHO, this bug hasn't been fixed because GtkTreeView is one >> of the most >> complicated stuff in GTK+ and because it's too complicated to >> write GUI >> softwares in plain C, we really need modern languages like >> Vala to write >> reliable and maintainable softwares. >> >> :) >> >> -- >> Axel FILMORE >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF email is sponsosred by: >> Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure >> _______________________________________________ >> Lxde-list mailing list >> Lxd...@li... >> <mailto:Lxd...@li...> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> This SF email is sponsosred by: >> Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lxde-list mailing list >> Lxd...@li... <mailto:Lxd...@li...> >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF email is sponsosred by: > Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxd...@li... > <mailto:Lxd...@li...> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > > |