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

[Laurent M. <mou...@on...>]

Thomas Leonard <ta...@ec...> skribis:

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

Great!  This, together with the ROX-Filer manual chapter, is good
definition of application directories.  If you want, I will try to put
this two parts together in "formal standard paper" format (e.g. defining
clearly what developper _must_ do, what they _should_ do and what they
_may_ do, like in the W3C standards or the Free Desktop Standards).  But
I'm going on a two weeks vacation, so it wont be done before my return.

On things that may be added to what is already written:
- standard Apps dir location? (e.g. /usr/apps/:/usr/local/apps/:~/Apps). 
- file permission and owner constraints for each file inside an
application dir;
- naming scheme for platform specific binary dir?
- description of localization dir, so that users can easily localize their
apps;
- description of standard command line options for AppRun, e.g. to
(re)compile, start as an applet, etc.
- description of Options.xml? (I'll have a few developper
questions/comments on
this later, but I don't have the time right now)

> 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!

As I said, this is something I'd love to contribute to!  :)  But I
never used RiscOS, so I will only be able to make suggestions and let you
correct them.  For example, is the fact that both the Filer and Edit
applications have a toolbar but no menu, only a "pop up" menu on mouse
right click, a RiscOS feature?  (I hope, cause I like this: it make better
use of screen space than the classical menu + optional toolbar.  I think
NextStep had something similar, but the pop up application dir was
accessible on the screen root).

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

I plan to seriously learn python... since almost a year.  :(  Anyway
python is too slow on my machine to write big application, I keep it for
small tools.

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Laurent MOUSSAULT