Re: Changes I've been thinking of...

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hey,
> I mean for for "some period of time". I gives me some freedom to brake 
> things without bothering people. One of the reason that drove me to 
> idea of forking gui+back is when I'm developing Project Center I need 
> to fix some things after GNUstep svn update. I need some stable 
> basement for PC  development. I tired fix things that was not broken 
> before.
To achieve what you want, ou can jsut install the latest release instead 
of tracking SVN trunk for svn.
Since I have several computers, I arrange to have one with stable 
release and one with the latest stuff.
> Actually some of the ideas are:
> - remove old/unused code from 'back' (xdps, xlib);
xlib is far from unused, so leave it in.
xdps can indeed be removed, since the X11 extension never worked... I 
read that it was removed, but it is still there. But inany case Fred 
should look at that and do things correctly not to break anything.
> - move general code 'back' to 'gui' (gsc if I remember correctly);
Discuss that with Fred, which is the maintainer.
> - finish font, image, drawing, events in GUI and ART backend (blurred 
> lines, text positioning, focus issues with WindowMaker, start of first 
> app in session, handling of X server events, text selection etc.).
I give you 100% reason here. Things should work well and reliable on 
WindowMaker, so that you have a reference implementation.
> These are the basic things that MUST work correctly. Until then 
> developing applications for GNUstep is a pain in back (fix things that 
> was not broken before). I intentionally focus on UNIX, X11 and ART 
> backend. I want at least one combination of components to work best of 
> all (reference platform). I understand that other people has different 
> tastes but spreading efforts never lead us to success.
Understandable.

Riccardo