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[Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Tristan,

We have a short guide on our website that talks all about how to set up a
build environment (including getting started with launchpad and a little
about cmake and packaging): http://elementaryos.org/docs/code

To quickly get all the build dependencies, you can run this command in
terminal "sudo apt-get build-dep shotwell"


On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Tristan Petersen <tristang4@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I have just recently joined this list and am eager to help out this
> community.
>
> I have had a lot of experience with Perl and C in the past, but I have not
> used them for a while and am very rusty there. I've also toyed around a bit
> with Mac OS X and iOS development (but have never made any "real" apps).
>
> I currently do web development with WordPress and am quite knowledgeable
> in PHP.
>
> All that said, this is my first experience with attempting to program on a
> linux machine. I'm enjoying it immensely so far! I just learned about vala
> a week ago and am already building a nifty app with it, mostly leaning on
> examples from around the web. Last night I found out about Glade,
> downloaded it, and played around with it quite a bit. It's a fun tool.
>
> In any case I went ahead and downloaded the newly created trunk for
> pantheon-photos. I've already made some changes as requested in the bug
> tracker. However, as this is my first time developing for elementary and
> linux in general, I would appreciate any guidance from team members. I
> searched on the website but could not find references to how to set up a
> development environment with all the necessary packages.
>
> I would really appreciate if someone could describe how to get up and
> running, using pantheon-photos as an example. I learn quickly and if
> someone takes the time to help me get set up for this one app, I believe I
> can then apply that thruout the rest of elementary (because I would like to
> contribute a lot more in the future). I have some ideas for an Address Book
> and making changes to Calendar to allowing syncing.
>
> At the moment, I got as far as making changes to one source code file,
> SearchFilter.vala (I removed the labels from the toolbar as listed on
> launchpad), ran configure (it generated an error about pkg-config not being
> able to locate glibphoto2 even tho it is installed, which I fixed), then
> ran make. make failed with a whole bunch of errors, almost all related to
> pkg-config not being able to locate packages (as similar to glibphoto2).
> For example:
> Package gee-0.8 was not found in the pkg-config search path.
> Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gee-0.8.pc'
> to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
> No package 'gee-0.8' found
>
> I can copy the full output of the failed make if anyone is able to help.
>
> Apologies if this is not the proper channel for this request, but I've
> tried: searching the website and hanging out in elementary-dev and have not
> had much success with either.
>
> Please help, I'd really like to contribute to the project.
>
> Cheers,
> Tristan
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> Harvey has some great mocks on dA. I'm going to be trying to ticket some
> smaller design issues until we get it in a state where I think we can start
> moving the UI in that direction.
>
> The first big design challenge is going to be sorting through that menubar
> and making sure all the functionality is available in the UI. Then we can
> start talking about some bigger UI changes.
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 12:29 PM, A. "Xylon" V. <avlabs314@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>
>> Yay! Maybe some blueprints linking to some mockups and how they should be
>> implemented would be helpful?
>> On Jan 24, 2014 8:13 PM, "Daniel Foré" <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hey Team,
>>>
>>> I’ve been talking to Jim Nelson (President of Yorba) about Shotwell for
>>> a while now and here’s the quick and dirty: Shotwell needs a new
>>> maintainer. Ubuntu has the Gallery app, Fedora has GNOME photos, and Yorba
>>> just doesn’t have the resources anymore to maintain Shotwell. Their focus
>>> is on Geary. So that pretty much leaves us or an unknown to take up the
>>> mantel.
>>>
>>> Jim seems really excited about the idea of Shotwell becoming a part of
>>> our community. He thinks we have the talent and the vision to bring it up
>>> to date and make it into a really great app. But there’s a small caveat:
>>> Yorba recently joined the GNOME development community. So officially,
>>> development is done in GNOME git and bugzilla and their wiki, etc. Which is
>>> obviously not ideal for us.
>>>
>>> Enter the solution: After some discussion with Jim, we think the best
>>> course of action is for elementary to fork Shotwell. I’ve taken the liberty
>>> of setting up a launchpad page for Pantheon Photos<https://launchpad.net/pantheon-photos>.
>>> It is currently maintained by elementary-apps team, but I think we’ll want
>>> to create a Pantheon Photos team as Jim wants to stay in the loop on
>>> development, but we don’t want to spam him with all the other elementary
>>> apps stuff.
>>>
>>> Firstly, I know that this is a big responsibility to take on. I think as
>>> a community, we can do it. Having Photos in launchpad and under the
>>> umbrella of the elementary apps team will allow us a lot more freedom for
>>> casual involvement with the code base. Not to mention, Jim has already
>>> stated that he is available to answer anyone’s questions or give guidance
>>> regarding how Shotwell’s code is structured, things to watch out for, etc.
>>>
>>> I think this is going to be a really positive move for our photos app
>>> and I’m looking forward to working with all of you on building a really
>>> great Photos experience in elementary OS.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Best Regards,
>>>
>>> Daniel Foré
>>>
>>> elementaryos.org
>>>
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>
> Daniel Foré
>
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Best Regards,

Daniel Foré

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