Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 02:08:20 +0000
From: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
To: Nathan Angelacos <nangel@nothome.org>
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Subject: Re: [alpine-devel] Alpine linux review
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On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:10:12 -0800
Nathan Angelacos <nangel@nothome.org> wrote:

> On 02/04/11 06:57, Natanael Copa wrote:
> 
> > yes. while there, I'd also like to lay the foundation for a gtk+
> > view (using lua-lgob).
> >
> 
> Ted. Do you have a "wishlist" of things that you'd like for ACF?
> 
> * One thing completely wrong in the original design was no route 
> controller; I'd like to get one done.
> 
> * I'm not sure the table inheritance was the best idea either.  (at 
> least the way the original author did it)

There is a lua library named penlight (the apk is lua-penlight) which
gives you lot of the python candy for 320kb. That includes an OOP lib.
I am seriously considering it for my aports.lua library. I have run some
tests with it already and it makes code slightly slower but i think it
might be worth it.
 
> * We need a skin based on K0gen's wikimedia skin.

I don't think k0gen made the skin.

> If we get a list of things we think we want to shoot for, perhaps we
> can start with simplifying/reducing the existing code.  E.g. remove
> what doesn't work to make it even simpler, rather than just add more
> features.

Maybe use the bug tracker for that?

Oh, one thing I always have thought about the default skin, is that
the tabs are seriously misplaced. The author of the article mentioned
that too. It should be much more visual clear that the tabs are
logically under the left menu. (moving the tabs down into the white
area helps)

Second thing about the skin is that it needs to be more lightweight. I
have heard people doing support over 100kbit/s lines (or via RDP) and
the nice alpine image slow things down significantly. We could simplify
and optimize that.

-nc


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