[Mono-list] GTKsharp 3

[Daniel Hughes]

Mike Kestner has no activity on that codebase in the last 4 months. I think
that it's safe to say that if we wait for him to do a release we could be
waiting indefinitely.

We need someone to step up and volunteer to do this release.

Any takers?

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:23 PM, Daniel Morgan <monodanmorg at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Mike Kestner is the maintainer of Gtk#.  However, I agree.  If he does not
> have time no more, then someone should become the new maintainer of gtk#.
>
> Gtk# can be found here at Github.  You will see changes have been made for
> gtk+ 3.0.   And you will see custom files have been moved to partial
> classes.
> https://github.com/mono/gtk-sharp
>
> We have been waiting a long time for a preview of Gtk# 3.0.
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Daniel Hughes <trampster at gmail.com>
> *To:* Andres G. Aragoneses <knocte at gmail.com>
> *Cc:* Mono-list at lists.ximian.com
> *Sent:* Wednesday, September 12, 2012 8:54 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Mono-list] GTKsharp 3
>
> I have managed to gain the following information from this bug report:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=648121
>
> The banshee port to GTK# 3 is complete they are just waiting for a release
> of GTK # 3 (as of 3 months ago, from Comment 8)
>
> Mike is the maintainer of GTK# but he doesn't have any time to work on
> it (according to Comment 7). I'm not sure who this Mike is but if he
> doesn't have time to maintain it, is the project then in need of a new
> maintainer?
>
> I still have not been able to establish where the GTK# 3 code is hosted.
> If I knew that I could start trying to port my application, submit bug
> reports and even contribute any fixes I require.
>
> I would also like to know who is in a position to issue a release. I can't
> see why a release shouldn't happen straight away so that us app developers
> and go ahead and attempt to port our applications. The most effect way to
> kill a opensource project (or any project) is to never release.
>
> On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 2:23 AM, Andres G. Aragoneses <knocte at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> On 12/09/12 08:46, Mathias Tausig wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 11. September 2012 11:53:03 Andrew York wrote:
>
> How far along is XWT? I'm don't mind trying out something in beta for
> fun, but I'm not smart enough to make major contributions. Is XWT far
> enough along for the average end developer to start having fun with?
>
>
> I recently tried it for a new project. It is actually very stable and very
> comfortable to work with, but the problem is, that is still missing a lot
> of
> features that you would expect from something you want to use productively
> (like message boxes, window-close event, open file dialog, password entry
> field)
>
>
>
>
> If everybody thought like that, nobody would use any library or framework
> at all.
>
> Decent helpers usually have about 80% of what you need. That is already a
> huge saving if you can use the helper instead of writing your own. You just
> need to write the other 20%[1]
>
> * As for us, we used it and had to implement couple of things which were
> merged recently from our pull-requests: progress bars and status-icon
> widget. So please, go ahead and implement MessageBoxes and
> PasswordTextEntries.
>
> Cheers
>
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