[pygtk] Is the pygtk tutorial still being maintained?

[Gian Mario Tagliaretti]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 9:43 PM, Eric S. Raymond <esr a snark.thyrsus.com> wrote:

Hi Eric,

> I have written documentation and an example program for the
> MessageDialog widget.

can you email it to me? I will include it in the tutorial.

> I have the following list of issues about the tutorial:
>
> 1. What is "private tooltip data" and how is it used.

There is a new tooltip widget starting from gtk+ 2.12, you probably
want to use it.
http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gtktooltip.html

> 2. The Toolbar request to add space is deprected.  What should replace it?

using the gtk.SeparatorToolItem I guess

> 3. Entire toobar section should be rewritten for new API.

...and unfortunately it's not the only part that should need some care.

> 4. How can I set a single dimension on a widget to be fixed in the
>   presence of resizes?

It also depends on how you packaged your widgets Table or Boxes (fill | expand)

> 5. What, exactly triggers the appearance of scrollbars with automatic policy?

Sorry I didn't get this one.

> I note that the last update was in 2006.  Is this document still being
> maintained?  Are the sources in a version-control system that I might
> get write access to?

It's in gnome SVN:
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/pygtk-docs/trunk/

cheers
-- 
Gian Mario Tagliaretti
GNOME Foundation member
gianmt a gnome.org