[haiku-development] Re: Tracker branches
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:52:34 -0400
On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> On 28/03/2011 20:24, Jonas Sundström wrote:
>
>> What's the general state of the Tracker refactoring and layout branches?
>> (Has anything been merged back into trunk? Is it near completion? What
>> remains?)
>>
>
> Hi Jonas, i'm a bit short on time but i'll try to anwser briefly.
>
> I abandoned the tracker_refactor branch (for various reasons i don't
> remember exactly at the moment). Consider it an exercise in refactoring
> pose rendering (file/dir icons for the unfamiliar reader) to handle large
> amount of files and be independent of view modes. It wasn't a lot of changes
> (and had still room for more refactoring), it would take me less than a week
> to do it again, as most of the time i spent back then was in deciphering the
> existing code in details and understanding the flaws.
>
> The tracker_layout branch is not-abandoned, near completion, although
> stalled for technical and non-technical reasons :-) Nothing has been merged
> back. What's left IIRC is finishing a few menu related changes, fixing a
> couple of glitches, and solving backward compatibility for BFilePanels. The
> commit messages contain a lot of details if needed.
>
>
> Is there anything I should avoid when working on Tracker and Deskbar?
>>
>
I did a bunch of style changes to Deskbar that got committed by tqh a few
weeks ago. Depending on how old the branch is this might cause some problems
at merge time. Unfortunately since the license broke the 80 char per line
limit almost every file was altered at least a little bit. Otherwise there
shouldn't be an issue.
>
> Deskbar is untouched in both branches, as for Tracker, well, any non
> trivial change will probably give me some pain but i'd hate to slow down
> anyones work because of "promises" i couldn't hold out... so go ahead!
>
>
> Anything I could do to help things move things along?
>>
>
> Have a look to, test, and finish my code ;-) I'd be happy to help (although
> not substantially at the moment).
>
> Best regards,
> Alex
>
>
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