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[Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'll dig around too this weekend. It might not be as big of a deal as we
think. Also instead of searching for "Porting Python from PyGTK2 to
PyGTK3" or something like that, maybe look for differences between
PyGTK2 and PyGTK3 or something along those lines.

Have a great day.:)
Patrick.

On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 13:25 -0400, Thomas Corwin wrote: 
> Well, I have figured out many problems as to why it is incomparable with any version higher than 10.04. 
> 
> The main problem is that Quickshot is written in Python running on GTK+ 2. All of the code MUST be updated to the newest versions of PyGK and GTK+ 3. 
> 
> I, unfortunately, do not know how to go about this problem. I wish I did. The only thing I can actually do without a problem is the GUI editing. 
> 
> As Patrick said earlier, maybe we could get Neil to help us get Quickshot running again. I am very limited to what I can do for it. I'm still poking around for complete information on porting the code to GTK+ 3. 
> 
> Thanks!
> Thomas Corwin
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Jun 10, 2013, at 4:55 PM, "Patrick Dickey" <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I'm sure once you're ready with code, the branch can be unlocked. Plus
> > any changes you make will sit in your local branch until you can upload
> > them.
> > 
> > Have a great day.:)
> > Patrick.
> > 
> > P.S. I'll try to help you out whenever I can, but I'm not sure how much
> > help I'll be.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 10:45 -0400, Thomas Corwin wrote: 
> >> After reason the link that Hannie provided, I saw that the bzr branch is restricted to one user being able to push to the branch. That's a problem.
> >> 
> >> But I will look into it all today, and "quickly" learn some python so I can attempt to bring it back.
> >> 
> >> Thank you all for the help!
> >> Thomas
> >> 
> >> Sent from my iPhone
> >> 
> >> On Jun 10, 2013, at 7:42 AM, "Patrick Dickey" <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> 
> >>> On the link that Hannie provides, if you follow through the thread (or
> >>> read it in an email client), you'll see that Neil Tallim had offered to
> >>> help out in what ways he could with getting it running. Maybe if we
> >>> figure out what needs to be done to get it working on 13.10, we can ask
> >>> Neil for suggestions on how to make it happen.
> >>> 
> >>> I'll say that my Python experience has come from writing a couple of
> >>> limited scripts and from reading through the special Python issues at
> >>> Full Circle Magazine (plus their ongoing series on Python). That might
> >>> be something to check out, if you want to learn it.
> >>> 
> >>> Have a great day.:)
> >>> Patrick.
> >>> 
> >>> On Mon, 2013-06-10 at 11:20 +0200, Hannie Dumoleyn wrote: 
> >>>> We discussed quickshot before. Here is a link to an email from Patrick 
> >>>> (with useful tips):
> >>>> https://lists.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/msg03688.html
> >>>> Hannie
> >>>> 
> >>>> Op 10-06-13 07:04, Thomas Corwin schreef:
> >>>>>> I'm slightly confused... quickshot is (or was) a "Quickly" app in
> >>>>>> Python, not a C# app.  See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Quickly .  Why start
> >>>>>> over using a totally different language and ask for "project files"?
> >>>>> I have more experience with C# than I do Python. And I'm sorry for using the term "project files". I am a .NET developer, and that is how we refer to the "source code" of our applications.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> You can do a normal
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> bzr branch lp:quickshot
> >>>>>> 
> >>>>>> to get the current quickshot codebase (and all history of that codebase,
> >>>>>> for the 7 months in 2010 it was under development).  That should include
> >>>>>> all the Ubuntu packaging files (under debian/ ) needed to build a
> >>>>>> quickshot package from source using the usual Debian/Ubuntu packaging
> >>>>>> tools.
> >>>>> I forgot I could do that.. I never thought of it really. Haha. But I will do that once I fix my Ubuntu installation. (Windows 8 and Ubuntu do not go together well when you dual boot....)
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> What would you need "project files" (as in the ones used by MS
> >>>>>> Visual Studio?) for?  Or does (bzr branch lp:quickshot) provide what you
> >>>>>> meant by "project files"?
> >>>>> The bzr branch will provide the files I was looking for. Again, I shouldn't have used my usual terminology.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> Wouldn't it make more sense to fix the existing quickshot app than to
> >>>>>> start over in a new language (and development environment) entirely?
> >>>>> More yes than no. Yes, because I will only have to fix the application, rather than start over, but No, because I am unfamiliar with Python. I will update the precious code that was written in Python, though.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>> Info on creating a PPA is at https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA
> >>>>>> when you need it, by the way :)
> >>>>> And thank you Jonathan! :) that's what I was looking for.
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> Thomas Corwin
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