[Xfc-dev] SourceView in XFC and more

[Auke Kok]

Erik Harrison wrote:
> On 12/7/06, Bo Lorentsen <bl at lue.dk> wrote:
>> Hi ...
>>
>> I have been playing with the XFC lib for a few weeks (for some private
>> projectes), and except for a few details I really like to make a larger
>> project in XFC to see if it really works as expected (stability,
>> performance and overhead), and to see what it is capable of doing.
>>
>> So, I liked to make a project editor like the old Glimmer editor, both
>> to test out XFC and to make a nice reference project, and last but not
>> least to make a Xfce4 IDE (small and fast) :-)
>>
>> But .... GtkSourceView is missing.
>>
>> Ok, I looked over some of Jeff's old work (Inti), and found that he had
>> made an source view abstraction for Inti. So with a few changes and some
>> automake magic I think we could extent XFC with a libXFCsourceview. The
>> problem is that I don't have subversion access, and I could fork the
>> project, but I really don't want to, so ...
>>
>> Is this at all possible, or are we still waiting for Jeff to show up ? I
>> think it would be nice to see this project become more alive (used and
>> maintained), and I am sure Jeff would be happy to see that his work has
>> not died while he was away. I am no expert i Gtk+ but, but if it helpes
>> and no one else want to maintain this project I will like to give it a
>> try, as I hate to see this project vanish.
>>
> 
> Considering the status of 4.4, with us inches from release, I vote we
> create a branch for this development in SVN, give Bo SVN access so he
> can go ahead and start working, then see where the pieces fall after
> 4.4.
> 
> Any seconds from a more senior dev?

I'd rather keep a *stable* 4.4 branch and have real development work done in /trunk/

Auke