Re: [rox-devel] Time for a ROX Written Standard?

[Thomas L. <ta...@ec...>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:35:34AM +0200, Laurent MOUSSAULT wrote:
> Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> skribis:
> 
> > 	http://freshmeat.net/articles/view/247/
> > 
> > From the comments so far, people seem to think it's a bit too
> > Windows-like!!
> 
> I just had a quick look at these comments, and all this misunderstanding
> gave me an idea I expose at the end of this post.  But first, here is a
> few reactions:

[...]

> This lead me to a proposition:
> 
> Why not publishing a "ROX Standard" document?  It would describe the
> application directories structure, the Choices system, the drag-and-drop
> saving concept, and other GUI guidelines.  I know that all of this is a
> work in progress, and that part of this is already written, but I think
> that having up-to-date written standards may help ROX to grow.  (btw, I'd
> love to help with such documents, I even love to _read_ them :). 

All good points - I've added an 'Application Directories' page to the
web-site with them on it:
	http://rox.sourceforge.net/appdirs.php3

The Choices system is already well documented, as is XDS (off-site).
I do keep meaning to write a style guide, but never seem to get around to
it!

If anyone wants to submit documentation (or point out what's missing),
you're very welcome. It doesn't even have to be completely accurate - it's
usually easier for me to correct errors than to write the thing from
scratch...

> I would even propose to have this "ROX standard" play the role of other
> desktops standard libraries: for an application to be ROX-integrated it
> would just need to follow the standard.  Of course we'd still have
> standard libraries that would help writting rox software, but they
> would'nt be mandatory.  For example, I... HATE gtk coding, and C is not my
> language of choice...  OK, this is an interested proposition!  :/

Absolutely! BTW, GTK coding is a lot more fun in python ;-)


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