On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Dirk Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "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.
>
I see. Now it makes sense, but there are so many since things already
available in tidy like list, scrollbars and views etc. I hope they will be
easy to redo in Freevo widgets.
>
> Dischi
>
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