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[Phill Whiteside <PhillW@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

as previously mentioned in IRC, there is a competent python guy in the
lubuntu team who may have some free time to help out if it is wished that I
ask him.

Regards,

Phill.

On 13 June 2013 18:47, Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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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