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[Cinque Port Computers <jackdtrice@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Israel,


I'm glad you are still active.  Thanks for the update.


Cheers,

Jack


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From: Torios-dev <torios-dev-bounces+jackdtrice=outlook.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 12 November 2017 7:28 AM
To: Israel
Cc: torios- dev
Subject: Re: [Torios-dev] Quick Update

Den 2017-11-12 kl. 01:07, skrev Israel:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been extremely busy lately, so I haven't gotten time to do much
> of anything, though I did fix a small bug in jwm-settings-manager when
> editing/adding buttons to the panel involving executing a program.
>
> I have recently begun playing with Vala, which is a language for
> writting GTK+ apps in a syntax similar to Java/C#/haXe/etc...  I am
> doing this for a few reasons:
>
> 1. you know me I like to learn about programming and so I have to keep
> learning things.
>
> 2. it is a really easy language to write apps really quickly with a lot
> of things already in place that I have written backend stuff for.  I can
> combine it with Glade/GTK Builder to make interfaces fairly complicated
> really quickly.
>
> 3. Purism.  In case you missed the events earlier in the year, Purism is
> building a fully GNU/Linux Phone based on Debian using GNOME/GTK+ (and
> probably KDE/Qt).  I am so interested in this project I have been
> devoting time to learning GTK, as I am fully convinced this type of
> Phone OS is EXTREMELY needed in the world of Google/Apple phones.  We
> need a free phone which does not mine data from us constantly.
>
> 4.ToriOS.  Some of the apps I have wanted to make would be extremely
> difficult to do using FLTK, things like the volume/battery indicators
> (ours are Bash scripts I wrote using yad), but Vala compiles out to pure
> C code, so I am hoping to be able to remake the indicators in compiled
> code.  I had been working to make FLTK create an indicator (which I did
> successfully, though it was not as good as the yad versions) and now
> that I have learned about Vala I find that I can most likely create the
> interface (including preferences/about/etc windows) pretty easily and
> compile them into pure C code.
>
> I have also been really busy with real life here!
>

Thanks for this update, Israel :-)

Best regards
Nio

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