Commitment to gnome2 port

[Jon Lapham]

This is in response to Derek's comments on my "UTF" thread.  I made a 
new thread because I don't want to mix the issues of the temporary UTF-8 
fix and the long term gnome2 port fix.

Derek Atkins wrote:
 > What we need is more help on the g2 port to "solve this for good".

Yes, that is the best solution.  No doubt.

If the main developers would come out and say, "we are 100% committed to 
the next major release including the gnome2 port", I'm sure more people 
would work on it.  Yes, I understand that this is a volunteer community, 
and we have no control over what people work on, but I think this is a 
special case.

Let me explain my situation:

There is a *really* annoying, simple, problem in the "tip of the day" 
dialog.  The text uses carriage returns ("\n"s in the po files) instead 
of using text wrapping.  It should use text wrapping.  This is a simple 
project for someone like me to work on, someone who wants to learn GUI 
programming.  However, I don't want to learn gnome1, because that is a 
dead-end technology.  And, I've been dissuaded from doing it in gnome2, 
because my work may not be usable until possibly 2 major releases from 
now (ie: years).  How many others are in the same boat I am?  How many 
potential developers do we lose because of this issue?

And, If I start hacking away on something stupidly simple like the tip 
of the day dialog, who knows what might happen?  Maybe I will become a 
major contributor to the gnome2 port?  Who knows... but in our current 
state we will never know.

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