On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 16:44 -0300, Johan Dahlin wrote: > Yevgen Muntyan wrote: > [..] > > Say, this Gtk-3.0 idea sucks. It brings nothing to application > > developers, yet application developers will be effectively forced > > to migrate to avoid problems. You are doing a disservice to > > application developers with this. It's a road to 4.0? Give me > > a break, canvas can be done now, and Undo in text widget doesn't > > need disabled deprecated API either. Thing is, nobody wants to > > do boring stuff, everybody wants to do exciting new stuff. Like > > writing a new programming language or mangling structure member > > names. > > Now what, do I get kicked out off the list? (Well, you can't > > do that) > > Right, 3.0 will bring very little, if nothing to developers in short term. > > As it has been brought up on this list many times. There are really no > alternatives to making this change in process. We have to do this, or Gtk+ > will die slowly and become irrelevant. > > Some major features discussed are not depending on the 3.0 release to be > done. But Canvas is one of them. You might want to do an attempt to > violently push in a canvas into Gtk sure, but what we're really aiming at is > something Clutter like which would give you proper integration. And that > cannot be solved without breaking all widgets in various interesting ways.
[ against my better judgment to contribute to this thread, but maybe somebody has a good answer that will enlighten other people as well ] How does the current GTK+ 3.0 effort help us to get to fundamental changes like an integrated canvas? - Owen _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
