Contributing to Xfce

Ariel Arjona lists at arjona.org
Wed Sep 10 16:40:01 CEST 2003


Alright, thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Regards,
Ariel

edscott wilson garcia wrote:

>On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 09:01, Ariel Arjona wrote:
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>>Hello folks,
>>
>>Recently I found out about the Xfce project and installed RC3. So far I 
>>like it a lot, and it's my default desktop at the moment. Great job guys.
>>
>>I was wondering what programming knowledge one must posess to make 
>>useful contributions to the project. My C programming programming 
>>knowledge is very basic at the moment (all console programs in DOS, for 
>>school projects), but I do programming for web environments, so I am 
>>looking for the docs, tutorials, howto's, etc to get up to speed.
>>
>>Any pointers to good resources and learning materials are greatly 
>>appreciated.
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>Probably the best is to start with a panel plugin. Choose something you
>want for the panel but is missing, check out the code for other plugins
>from xfce-goodies at http://berlios.de, study the code and modify it
>until it does what you want it to do. You will need the gtk and glib api
>reference to understand what is going on.
>
>regards,
>
>Edscott
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>>Regards,
>>Ariel Arjona
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