Proposed Application for Xubuntu

[Jelle de Jong]

Vincent wrote:
> 
> 
> On 08/05/07, *Jelle de Jong* <jelledejong at powercraft.nl
> <mailto:jelledejong at powercraft.nl>> wrote:
> 
>     Vincent wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > On 08/05/07, *Ronnie Whisler* <mrwislr at gmail.com
>     <mailto:mrwislr at gmail.com>
>     > <mailto:mrwislr at gmail.com <mailto:mrwislr at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>     >
>     >     I have found a couple of applications that should be in
>     Xubuntu in my
>     >     opinion
>     >
>     >     1st. CatFish - for lightweight file search utility
>     >     http://www.getdeb.net/category.php?id=24
>     >     <http://www.getdeb.net/category.php?id=24>
>     >
>     >
>     > Just installed it, quite cool, but it won't use Tracker as a back-end
>     > even though the site says it should and I have Tracker installed.
>     >
>     >     2nd. gmusicbrowser - for lightweight music player
>     >
>     >
>     > Quite difficult to comprehend.
>     >
>     > Though I did not find Exaile difficult to use, but I suppose it
>     can be
>     > difficult if you just want to play single files.
>     >
>     >     3rd. get rid of gxine and go with mplayer with optimal settings
>     >     (gmusicbrowser can use mplayer as its backend) also only
>     player that
>     >     plays apples movie trailers.
>     >
>     >
>     > Discussed a lot already, see Adam's mail.
>     >
>     >     4. grip - for lightweight cd player & ripper
>     >
>     >
>     > Don't know it, but if it really has that many Gnome dependencies
>     then I
>     > suppose it's not an option.
>     >
>     >     5. hacburn - for lightweight cd burning (since xfburn doesnt
>     work for
>     >     most things)
>     >
>     >
>     > Don't know it either.
>     >
>     >     6. claw-mail - for lightweight email client (with a couple
>     plugins and
>     >     the tango theme installed)
>     >
>     >
>     > See Adam's email.
>     >
>     >     these are just some
>     >
>     >     i know i can think of more but i'm tired
>     >
>     >     think them over test them whatever
>     >
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>     >
>     >
>     > Jani, you're right, I should be contributing more. I can't do it on a
>     > regular basis, but what could I do if I'd learn how to package
>     things? I
>     > still want to learn that someday.
>     >
>     > --
>     > Vincent
>     >
>     I also agree with Jani and Harold, I especially like to see patches for
>     apps used in ubuntu and removed there gnome dependencies if possible.
> 
> 
> What skills do you need to be able to do this? Would it be possible to
> learn this quickly, or do you need to know the programming language that
> program is written in and then dive into the source code?

You need to know a lot about GTK widgets, and have to dive in the source
code of the program to port functionality of gnome libs to gtk libs. You
really need to have the fellow developers of the program helping on this
to change the total program.

Jelle