Re: Looking for developers to add GUI toolkit to XEmacs and/or InfoDock.

[Message resent with corrected headers] Bob Weiner <weiner(a)beopen.com&gt; writes: Here is some very specific areas that XEmacs could do with improvements, including some that can be done by people with non-programming skills. Most of these are smaller projects than adding a whole new Widget set. The times are guesstimates. - Update the New User manual to reflect version 21, including major usability improvements for Newbies such as customize. [2 weeks] - Write a graphical version of the tutorial. This is much more doable with the new widgets. [1.5 weeks] - Paint an Open Source set of high-color icons for XEmacs (including Gnus, VM, W3 and TeX-toolbar). [<1 week for a skilled artist] - Interface XEmacs with a fast C/C++ parser (gcc with precompiled headers?) to provide the equivalent of the Intellisense features contained in Visual Studio. (c.f. Eric Ludlam's work, eldoc, ilisp JDK and your own oobrowser). [1 month] Alternatively find out whether XEmacs-NT can call on Visual Studio to provide the needed information and if so, implement it. [1 week] - Provide true unicode support for XEmacs (I believe this one might be already taken). These are all projects that directly improve the (apparent) usability of XEmacs to various groups of new and older users. Apart from the last one I feel they can performed by one committed person in isolation and then be integrated. Jan P.S. To close of with a really hard problem (that to me seems inappropriate for SourceXchange) that is becoming more and more relevant. - Design and implement a clean way of allowing "multiple major modes" as embedded scripts, ditto HTML, and ditto documentation is becoming more and more popular. AFAIK there currently isn't an editor that does this really well.