[java-gnome-hackers] contribute

[Gyetvan A. <gye...@gm...>]

Hello All !

Let me introduce myself : my name is Andras Gyetvan, I am from Hungary.

I would like to contribute to java-gnome. My payed job is to be R&D VP, 
I am a leader of development team which makes software for PM and ASC 
systems. Our project is written in pure JAVA, using Swing for UI. Our 
main target OS is Windows.

Yes, you can ask, why I interested in java-gnome ? It is because I use 
Linux/GNOME at home and at work.

My wife and I are hobby photographers, so I have a lot of digital 
images. What I did not find in GNOME is a good Photo Album Manager, 
which can handle thousands of pictures and has an intuitive UI, good 
features - similar to PicaJet on Windows. (I do not like to use KDE, Qt, 
etc. on my GNOME system)

So I started to develop this application as my hobby project. I am using 
JAVA to implement "business logic" and Gtk+ for the UI. This is why I 
use java-gnome.

I found that there is a lot of "placeholder" classes in bindings where a 
lot of methods are missing. It is easy to add them and I already 
extended a few. So far I finished/extended the following classes :
- org.gnome.gdk : Drawable, Pixbuf, PixbufRotation.
- org.gnome.gtk : Container, DrawingArea, IconView, Image, Layout, 
Paned, Widget

(Yes, it is not too impressive list, but please keep in  mind that I 
started to work on it a week ago.)

Probably it is obvious that I touching classes in order as I need them 
in my project. Currently I am focusing on DrawingArea and drawing.

I do not know if this kind of contribution will fit in your development 
scenario, anyway I would be happy to share them with you.

Finally, I have to tell that I have never ever joined to this kind of 
community, so I do not know the rules.

Andras