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Outreachy week-2 progress report!

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December 15, 2019

Task for the week:

  • Try to replicate the gnome-builder “search and replace bar” widget (just the wire-frame) in the Gtranslator project.
    • [sub-task] First try doing the above task in a seperate simple application.

Summary of the week:

It was a really productive week. I am almost done with the current tasks. I’ve finished replicating the wire-frame of gnome-builder’s search-and-replace-bar widget into the libdazzle-example application (although, it’s a complete mess piece of code right now, that I’ll refactor once I see it is actually working). There are a couple (or maybe a couple more) of final nitpicks to do to actually mark these as finished.

At the moment, I am far more comfortable with the project. Nothing seems really alien-sih now, rather most of the stuffs (from the project) looks quite familier (and imparts somewhat proper sense).

Compiling below each day’s progress in brief:

Day 01:

Day 02:

  • Had my first weekly-meeting with danigm. Discussed various standing doubts.
  • Then later in the day, attended the first outreachy zulip chat conversation.

Day 03:

  • Was able to build and isolate the gnome-builder’s development environment properly.
  • Read a couple of blogs from the gnome-builder developers. Thus, explored a couple of new (then unknown) features of the Builder-IDE.
  • Later, also started replicating the search-and-replace-bar widget in the example application.

Day 04:

  • No progress for the day. Wasn’t able to focus much.
  • So, spent most of the time in reading stuffs.

Day 05:

  • Finally succeeded in reverse engineering the gnome-builder’s search_and_replace_bar widgets into its units.
  • This time, started picking up the concerned widget’s source code (for recreation inside libdazzle’s example application), the right way.

Day 06:

  • Done recreating the widget into the example application. Still required to work more on the invoking action.
  • Have started testing the re-created widget files in the gtranslator project as well.

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