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

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

On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 03:10:49PM +0200, Laurent MOUSSAULT wrote:
> 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.

Sounds like a good idea. The special files are:

- AppRun
- Help
- AppIcon.xpm
- .DirIcon.png
- AppInfo.xml

Anything else ('src', 'Options.xml', 'Messages', 'Linux-x86') is internal
to the application and doesn't need mentioning. Although, it would be
worth pointing out that storing several binaries is useful in network
environments.

> > 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).

Yep, it's from RISC OS. Actually, on RISC OS, the filer and Edit didn't
even have toolbars! However, `Up' was on the window frame and we can't do
that on ROX.

> > 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.

Too slow to start or to run? Archive and Edit are both written in python,
but I haven't tried them on anything slower than a PII-333...


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