Re: Update on community bonding phase: Plans on refactoring ftinspect

[Charlie Jiang]

Hi Werner,

> [Charlie, please subscribe to the 'freetype-devel' mailing list.]

But I can still manage my subscription status on 
https://lists.nongnu.org/ . Is my subscription accidentally dropped?

> I don't know.  What would be the advantage of having everything in a
> single file?

IMO, those widgets could be considered "auxiliary components", and are 
pretty far from the core logic. Therefore, it should be made less "loud" 
(it's 8 source files out of 23 in total - more than 1/3 !)

> If you finish editing the control file, you press a button in
> `ttfautohintGUI` to regenerate the output font.  `ftinspect` should
> notice the update file and automatically update its display.

I see.

> Well, the coding style of `ftinspect` is*far*  more standard than the
> FreeType library itself:-)

I will try to imitate it at my best. I'm using the .clang-format file 
from FreeType project - should I do that?

> Please note that we (roughly) use the 'GNU style for ChangeLog files'
> for writing commit messages.  You are normally on the safe side if you
> imitate the commit message format I use for my commits.

Will definitely do that.

Cheers,
Charlie