Re: [Java-gnome-developer] Active projects?

[Andrew C. <an...@op...>]

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 12:24 -0500, Albert Kurucz wrote:
> Are there any open source projects using java-gnome?

There is (anecdotally) quite a bit of code out there built on java-gnome
(even some large one programs), but over the years these have tended to
be in-house applications. That's fine, of course, but it doesn't really
help in terms of promoting the project.

There are also a number of open source efforts out there (I happen to
know of four people with non-trivial projects, and I have another three
or four apps slowly bubbling along myself) but which are as yet
incomplete. The trouble with end-user programs is that there really is a
high bar to reach before it becomes a usable application... and going
from proof of concept to an app that is no longer in mockup/demo mode is
*serious* work.

Many such projects never reach the light of day, and so be it.

And much as I'm eager to see people with well rounded apps bragging
about them, until they feel they are ready I wouldn't really want to see
the java-gnome website promoting half-assed incomplete efforts.

But since you ask, I guess I can point to one, which is Slashtime. You
can read about it here
http://research.operationaldynamics.com/projects/slashtime/

It is barely above trivial in size (although it has a heritage that is
over 6 years old) but it is at least done up all the way - proper
infrastructure to locate dependencies and build, proper `make install`,
a .desktop file, etc and suitable for packaging. [The one thing I
haven't quite done yet is internationalization; there's a branch for
that but I think we need to add something to Action before it'll make
sense. And, of course, it's not the applet it always wanted to be, which
is a shame, but that's a topic for another day]

It's packaged in Gentoo Linux as app-misc/slashtime.

> If yes, why are they not posted on the java-gnome web site?

In the past there was a list of apps, but they were all the half-assed
incomplete efforts I was describing above. So I'd sorta thought we could
wait until there were a few code bases that were worthy of being held up
as public examples.

> It would be a help, learning by examples.

Well, for the time being we've done our best to make the samples in
doc/examples/ coherent. People are welcome to submit others.
http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/4.0/doc/examples/START.html

Other than that, well, as I said, I've plenty of things that I want to
be working on, and the sooner I can get back to them, the happier I'll
be :)

AfC
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