[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-16 Thread Scott Violet
I added a couple of benefits of using Views on Linux to the spread sheet. I have a couple of comments on advantages of using GTK directly: Font size changes (e.g., changing the system font size will apply to our dialogs) Is there a reason why we couldn't resize based on the system font size?

[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-16 Thread tony
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Scott Violet wrote: Font size changes (e.g., changing the system font size will apply to our dialogs) Is there a reason why we couldn't resize based on the system font size? Better RTL These are weaknesses with our Windows implementation too. If we're willing

[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-16 Thread Ben Goodger (Google)
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Scott Violet s...@chromium.org wrote: I added a couple of benefits of using Views on Linux to the spread sheet. I have a couple of comments on advantages of using GTK directly: Font size changes (e.g., changing the system font size will apply to our

[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-16 Thread Dan Kegel
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Ben Goodger (Google) b...@chromium.org wrote: We'd have to implement these APIs on Linux anyway for the custom-rendered tabstrip. From some basic digging it sounds like Gtk provides APIs similar to IAccessible in Atk that you implement. Maybe Jonas knows

[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-15 Thread Dean McNamee
I had a discussion about Views with Scott. I think I am on the side of the fence that porting views it not a good idea. One of the things that came up is remote X, would it be possible to ever have good remote X performance with the Views panting model? I wouldn't want to paint ourselves into

[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-15 Thread Dean McNamee
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Ben Goodger (Google) b...@chromium.org wrote: Scott Violet, Elliot, Evan Martin, Adam Langley, Tony, Linus and I met briefly earlier today to discuss Linux UI and Gtk. What we agreed is that next week Elliot and I will spend some time researching what it

[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-15 Thread Brett Wilson
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Dean McNamee de...@chromium.org wrote: I had a discussion about Views with Scott.  I think I am on the side of the fence that porting views it not a good idea.  One of the things that came up is remote X, would it be possible to ever have good remote X

[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-15 Thread Adam Langley
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Dean McNamee de...@chromium.org wrote: UI elements like buttons are different, my understanding is that (at least in theory) it should be possible for all of those images of the different states to live on the X server, so they don't need to be sent over the

[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-15 Thread Brett Wilson
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Adam Langley a...@chromium.org wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Dean McNamee de...@chromium.org wrote: UI elements like buttons are different, my understanding is that (at least in theory) it should be possible for all of those images of the different

[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-15 Thread Ben Goodger (Google)
Evan told Scott and I you were rendering into Skia in a few places, then converting into a native image format and pushing to the display. -Ben On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Dean McNamee de...@chromium.org wrote: I don't believe we are currently using Skia for any of our UI drawing.  We

[chromium-dev] Re: Doing some research with views and GTK.

2009-03-13 Thread tony
I started a page describing some of the high level tradeoffs between the two. Please add items or elaborate. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/GtkVsViewsGtk On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Ben Goodger (Google) wrote: Scott Violet, Elliot, Evan Martin, Adam Langley, Tony, Linus and I met briefly