RE: [express-devel] images

[Brian St.P. <bst...@me...>]

> On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 02:08:19PM -0500, Brian St . Pierre wrote:
> > When you update to cvs, you will be happy to see that we are now
> > retrieving images.
>
> Great. The basic functionality is there. It still has some problems, but
> I think they come from the URL-code. Try to display slashdot for
> an example.
> I'll have a look at the code soon, I often get segfaults together with
> g_assert()s that failed...

I'll take a look at that.  It is probably either in http_stream_get_response
or open_url.

>
> Today, I hacked together a small tgz with a GUI for Express. It's
> written with glade, which generates all the necessary stuff for you,
> e.g. autoconf-stuff, gettext-stuff, gnome-macros, -includes etc.
>
> It took me 10 minutes to make the small demo-distribution at
> http://express.sourceforge.net/express-0.1.tar.gz
>
>
> I really think glade is the way to go. We can rewrite the whole GUI very
> fast with it, and then just cut'n'paste the 'meat' of Express into the
> new framework. Then we have all the advantages of GNOME, plus
> additional gettext support can be added quite easily in the future...

Sounds good.  I'm content to work on "meat" for the time being anyway.  You
can change the front end to whatever suits you...

-Brian