[Gambas-user] Solving the Gambas packaging problem psychologically (!)

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 07.01.2014 13:29, schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> Le 07/01/2014 13:17, Rolf-Werner Eilert a écrit :
>>
>>
>> Am 06.01.2014 18:35, schrieb Benoît Minisini:
>>> Yeah, great mail subject!
>>>
>>> I think it will be more difficult for Linux distributions to fail
>>> packaging Gambas correctly if there is a useful tool made in Gambas
>>> (other than the IDE) that will be integrated inside package repositories
>>> because people use it.
>>>
>>> What do you think about that?
>>>
>>> Do you think that extracting the image editor of the IDE and make a
>>> simple but powerful "Paint" program from it could be a good idea?
>>>
>>> That tool should be QT4/GTK+ agnostic of course.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>
>> Hmmm - if you think of graphics, what about a tool like TerraGen /
>> TerraMaker? I know it's been made with VB, and a lot of people use it
>> for designing landscapes. TerraMaker has an export to POV and Blender,
>> so this would be something similar to our universe. At least this is not
>> #600 image editing software :)
>>
>> And if not graphics, what about a tool for serial letters which simply
>> runs reliably (in contrary to the usual text crunchers available)? It
>> could include an easy-to-operate interface to different data sources
>> (from simple tables to database etc.) and combine these with a text
>> (from the richtext editor) to PDF output.
>>
>> Regards
>> Rolf
>>
>
> Well... I have no idea of you are talking about, but it seems great. :-)
>
> As for the 601th image editor, there is no simple image editor on Linux
> that I like. What I did in the IDE is sort of one I want, but not
> perfect yet.
>

As for TerraGen: http://planetside.co.uk/products/terragen3

But those guys have been programming it for years, so it would be hard 
to come up with anything near to its perfection...

The serial letter thing is (in a very simple form) the project I just 
sent you.

This image editor in the Gambas IDE, where is it? How can I access it?