Hi, david gowers <neota@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > my involvement has been impeded by these things: > - lack of documentation (hard to find my way around the gimp > sourcetree without general guides as to what goes where (where to > find/add a particular feature.) http://developer.gimp.org/api/1.3/app/ is the best we can offer you at the moment. At least you don't have to dig around in several hundreds files living in the same directory without any clear dependencies. The new source code structure should be a lot easier to understand and it has definitely become easier to work on one area w/o the risk of breaking unrelated stuff. This was almost impossible with the 1.2 code base. You should also have a look at devel-docs/structure.xml. This document is a first draft of an explanation of the GIMP source code structure. I haven't got around to finish it yet but perhaps it can be helpful already. > - lack of knowledge of general 'modus operandi'. for example, > i have a whole directory just for enhancement ideas. they are all > practical in the sense i know how to implement them in general. i > don't know whether to add them to bugzilla, because i don't know > what the policy is for enhancement requests. The policy is that you are supposed to add your enhancement requests to Bugzilla with severity set to "enhancement". Please check for similar reports before you create a new one. Duplicate reports cause us a lot of unneeded maintainance work. > in the realm of 'discussion', does anyone here know why GimpPalette is > implemented using a list? it seems a lot saner to use an array. Probably because manipulating an array is a lot more cumbersome than using a list, in particular if you want to insert/remove and reorder entries. I don't see how a simple array would be saner but I didn't look into the details of GimpPalette lately. Perhaps a GArray might be a reasonable alternative? > i would like to convert it to use an array if possible, as it would > simplify future enhancements, and hopefully remove the need for the > 'position' attribute. Could you outline how this would simplify future enhancements? Sven
