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From: Thomas L. <ta...@ec...> - 2001-04-26 12:32:13
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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... -- Thomas Leonard http://rox.sourceforge.net ta...@ec... ta...@us... |