RE: [hpoj-devel] New screenshot

[PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dav...@hp...>]

Hi, Joe.  Thanks for putting together the new prototype so quickly.  It's
very close to what I had in mind.  One comment I'll make right now is that
we shouldn't restrict phone numbers to the US-style format of 3-digit area
code and 3+4-digit phone number.  I'd like this software to have world-wide
appeal, but of course that would also require translation capability, which
opens another whole can of worms.  :-)

> It already seems like a bigger project than I imagined it would be. It
> probably wouldn't take long to put together a dialog with 
> most of the things you
> mentioned, but I'm not a professional at this, so If there is 
> an experienced
> GUI designer involved in the project, that certainly would be 
> the person to do
> it.
Before anybody spends too much time on this I probably need to finish my
current project of adding PML support to PTAL, because that would provide
the necessary application-level infrastructure to support an application
like this.  Then it would probably be a good idea to write some simple
command-line scripts that play around with the various settings that are
available via PML so that we can better understand the functionality we're
trying to expose to the user.

PML multiplexing will also be important to have eventually so multiple
applications (such as SANE and xojpanel) can access PML concurrently.  I'm
looking into this too.

> If there isn't one available, I'm willing to help with 
> whatever I can. At the
> moment that would be limited to drag-and-drop *.ui creation and
> auto-generating a  *.cpp and *.h file from each *.ui, a 
> project file and Makefile.
> That is actually all done easily with the autogeneration 
> tools. Someone with
> strong c++ coding skills would need to do the actual 
> implementation afterwards.
I'm sure the prototypes you've done recently are good practice for you, so
feel free to practice and develop your skills all you want.  :-)

Damcha wrote:
> About xojpanel:	If you want, I can develop a GTK (GNOME 
> ?) version 
> of xojpanel. 
> Up to you...

And back to Joe:
> If you decide to use gtk instead of Qt, maybe Qt-generated 
> files or previews
> could still be used as a rough guide. 

I would welcome anybody who wants to come forward and help develop and
maintain such a program, and either GTK or QT would be fine with me.  If I
were doing it myself I would probably use QT and QT Designer, but that's
just my personal preference and I don't want to start a QT vs GTK or KDE vs
GNOME flame war.  That said, I would still prefer that there not be wasted
effort in developing two separate versions using different GUI toolkits.

David