Re: First experience with gtkmm

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 01:39 -0400, Michael Ferrier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just want to drop a line to let you know of my very positive
> experience learning and using gtkmm.
> 
> This was my first experience with an open source library, and I have
> to admit that I approached it with suspicions that the lack of a
> profit motive would result in inferior work.

As the owner of Openismus, who do work around GTK+ and gtkmm, I can say
that there is a profit motive even if it's not as direct as charging for
licences.

>  Instead, I was delighted to find that gtkmm is a well designed,
> complete, and easy to learn system that produces terrific results
> without demanding a disproportionate investment of time. Bravo!
> 
> Only two minor criticisms:
> 
> 1) The documentation is incomplete, skimming over or leaving out major
> features. Because of this I had to find other web resources and do a
> lot of digging through header files. The system is intuitive enough
> that this was not a big problem, but it could be improved.

Could you please mention these features in a bug in bugzilla? Where we
think we know how something should work, we'd like to add it to the
book.

> 2) The first bug in gtkmm that I encountered was discouraging. This is
> the bug whereby a button cannot be pressed if it becomes active while
> the mouse is hovering over it:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56070

Yeah, that's very annoying.

> The fact that this bug has been known and gone unfixed for about 8
> years did not bode well. But I was pleasantly surprised when, through
> to the end of my development project, that had become the only bug in
> gtkmm that I encountered. Odd that it's stayed in there so long, but
> not a bad record at all. :-)
> 
> Thank you for listening, and for all the time and effort put into
> development of this excellent system,
> 
> Mike Ferrier
> 
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