You make a good point. In about two weeks I’ll
be able to begin work on any segfaults and memory problems that persist. Do me
a favour and start listing and prioritizing the problems. We’ll target
the bugfix release for the end of June, and then jump into cosmetic
improvements.
Thanks,
Trevor
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[mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Double 12
Sent: Friday, 23 May, 2008 08:25
To: address@hidden
Subject: [Beaver-devel] Fix
release and cool dialogs
I've got a few things I want to discuss:
If the new Beaver release will really be a release with lots of GTK
modifications, it will take some time before it's ready for the users to use.
With the fact in mind that there haven't been any releases for the last 4
years, we must be glad that Damn Small Linux still uses Beaver. I'm afraid that
if we wait too long now, even DSL may choose a different editor as standard
editor. DSL is a pretty popular distribution; if we lose DSL, we have just very
few Beaver users left, and it may be hard to get new ones.
I propose that we bring out a 0.3.0.1 bugfix
release in the near future. The 0.3.0 and 0.3.1 releases currently
offered on the site are not usable, they just cause segfaults. Beaver 0.3.0.1
will be exactly the same as 0.3.0, just a new About dialog and fixes for the
segfaults.
Then we could remove the links to 0.3.0 and 0.3.1 on the site and offer 0.3.0.1
to DSL. When users have a working, solid, GTK+2 based Beaver-version to use, we
have our hands free to develop the next release with all the new features.
I think that if we don't bring out any new releases until our really new
version, it may be the case that lots of users and a distribution already
changed to a different editor.
What distinguishes Beaver from other editors? Most of the functions in the
editor are the same. To my knowledge, Beaver has two distinguishing points:
it's light and it has a name that is much cooler than the names of other
editors.
My idea would be to make Beaver look less
boring by using the Beaver animal in the program. Of course without
making the program fat: just changing some font colors and adding some images.
If we look at Firefox' About dialog (attachment!), it looks good. This is just
because it has nice artwork and because it uses a fancy font.
We can use a different font color
in the about dialog or in other dialogs, and find someone to redesign the Beaver image (the Beaver icon
is still okay). If the designer can make +/- three different Beaver images, we
can also put small images in other dialogs, like the Preferences and Color
Chooser dialog.
Small images and fancy colors won't make Beaver much slower, but spice it up a
lot!
Double 12