During the past two weeks I was assigned to work on sapwood a little more than usual. My current goal for sapwood is to drop the GDK based rendering (which will disappear from GTK+ 3.0 once Company's rendering-cleanup branch gets merged). The transition towards a cairo-only core of sapwood will also be required in order to properly integrate with Carlos' work on the new GtkThemingEngine API (which is supposed to land in 3.0 as well).

So I spent the last two weeks developing test cases for sapwood's rendering results. After finishing those, the real refactoring started. Right now, the cairo-transition for SapwoodPixmap is almost finished (the part in the theming engine that does the actual drawing).

I also finally got around to refactor the image cropping code (it was actually doing very similar things four times due to copy'n'paste and the short time available when developing this feature).

I wanted to get a little closer to the "writing tests first" paradigm. But I realized that it was too painful to execute "make check" (or whatever) after my changes, I decided to develop a graphical front end to the GLib/GTK+ unit testing system: Gutachter



Packages for Fedora 12 are available, for other distrubutions you can kindly ask…

A big Thank You! goes to Andreas, who created the icons for that project quite some time ago (and actually for a different project, but here we go).

Happy using, bug reporting, hacking and happy translating…