hey,
is desiredata still alive? i posted a couple of messages about trying to get an OSX version from SVN compiling a month or two ago and never got any replies..
otherwise, what's the status on UI development? if i was to just dive headfirst and try and fix some of the things that have been bugging me over the last week, is that at all useful or helpful? or is there someone i should talk to first?
i haven't been involved in development of any open source projects before, and i guess i'm just not sure what the procedure normally is.
in particular (i'm running Miller's 0.40-2 on OSX 10.4): - i'd like to bring in the multiple-level undo code from dd, or implement something similar - there seem to be some OSX-specific issues around sub-windows switching between PD windows - apple-` doesn't switch between PD sub-windows like it should. this could also be a Tcl/Tk issue. - there are consistent problems with populating the Window menu - the scrollbar down arrow is 95% hidden on the main Pd window, so scrolling messages down involves clicking a two-pixel-high strip, which is really hard - i'd like to put a scrollbar on the path preferences, so more than 10 lines can fit - mouse cursor alignment over the outlet 'plugs' on objects is bloody frustrating for new users (i've spent the week watching one) and it's just an offset issue i think - preserving newlines in comments! i don't know how possible this is (how tied comments are to Pd's core messaging system) but i'd love to be able to have multi-paragraph documentation with one comment object - occasionally when switching into a sub-window the mouse x offset is completely munted, so Tcl/Tk thinks the mouse is way over from where it should be - other things i can't think of right now
i suppose what i'm really asking is - if i went ahead and spent a week fixing all the UI things that really bugged me, assuming my code wasn't really stupid or ugly or bad, what's the chances my changes would make it out into the world, and so be useful for people who aren't me?