"Chandan Pitta" wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 3:23 AM, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> John Molohan wrote:
>> > Jason Tackaberry wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 09:59 -0700, Chandan Pitta wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> This is a great news! I have been waiting for this day. Thank you
>> >>> Dischi and Jason. I can start working on my personal Freevo 2 project
>> >>> now. Can't wait to try out clutter.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> In fairness, dischi deserves all the credit for this iteration of
>> >> kaa.candy. :)
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Jason.
>> >>
>> > Just had a chance to install this and visually it looks great. I'm
>> > looking forward to seeing what people come up with using it.
>>
>> That is my main problem: I need ideas for widgets. And I need nice
>> backgrounds, icons and fake screenshots.
>>
>>
> Why did freevo go with creating it's own widget set and not use tidy with
> pyclutter binding for tidy? I am probably not seeing something obvious.
Two reasons:
1. We need stuff tidy does not provide. This includes the xml based
theming support and the handling of the two threads. Tidy is just a
basic widget set we could use but we would still need to inherit
from it. But we could use tidy as base and not clutter directly,
but ....
2. Tidy will not be released and the API is not stable. For the
clutter blog:
Tidy is a simple library containing some useful actors and
interfaces which can be used by applications developers; it aims
to be simple and yet provide some high-level classes that Clutter
won’t provide.
It is by no means complete, or aiming to replace other toolkits;
you can think of it as a reference implementation for a toolkit
based on Clutter.
Tidy works as a standalone toolkit, but it can also be used as a
copy-and-paste repository, like libegg for the GTK+ stack; because
of this, it doesn’t provide any kind of API or ABI guarantee, and
it probably won’t be released in form of tarballs. It can be seen
as a constant work in progress.
This sounds like a very bad choice to rely on.
Dischi
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