On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 15:38 +0000, Matthew Allum wrote: > Hi; > > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 16:21 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > > I remember seeing an iTunes-ish demo at GUADEC, showing a track listing > > in a "window". I think it scrolled. Is there some code I can look at for > > that or something similar, to see how you implemented that? > > That was a demo to test the clutter API and essentially see how far we > could push things and how long completely copying something like > coverflow would take. We're kind of wooses when it comes to making it > public-ally available as it is such a blatant and exact copy of Apples > cover flow. Its unclear if it patented but we dont want to attract the > wrong kind of attention and ultimately though it looks and acts very > cool its just a boring unoriginal 'me too' rip off.
Maybe you could just rip out the scrolling window part of the code? It seems like a common task so it would be useful example code. > > What's the general plan with these higher-level building blocks in > > clutter? You already have ClutterEntry. Do you plan to add buttons, > > menus, etc, or do you plan to make regular GTK+ widgets appear less > > alien as clutter actors? > > > > The general idea is to keep clutter itself quite raw/generic but still > useful and flexible - rich canvas like. The expectation is that higher > level toolkits would be written quickly and easily on top that fit a > specific UI's/devices need. For the kind of user interfaces clutter is > aimed at I dont think a high level one size fits all approach is > possible. OK, so I guess I hope that people put these things into a separate library for reuse. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com -- To unsubscribe send a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
