On May 24, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Paul Davis wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 1:21 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > The structure of that part of Gdk follows very closely the X11 way of doing > things, and Cocoa Foundation's way of handling selections and clipboards > (which they call pasteboards) doesn't line up very well with it. It seems to > me that it might work better to just make a gtkselection-quartz.c and > implement everything directly, ignoring Gdk entirely, much as Richard did > with gtkclipboard-quartz.c and gtkdnd-quartz.c.
John, it's really great that you are having a go at getting the selection code working. If Richard has been bypassing GDK in the clipboard and DnD implementations as well (I have not studied that code in detail yet), then I guess it makes sense to do the same for selections. > seems to me that its all about time. ideally, the design of GDK would be > modified to be more generic/adaptable, and all backends would continue to use > it as an interface. but it seems to me unlikely that this is going to happen > in any reasonably timely way. so if you want this to work (i confess that > its not too important for ardour's functionality), i think your proposal is > likely right way forward. I am really in favor of modifying the design of GDK to be more generic, not only for selections, but for many more areas: DnD, window management, drawing, etc. Of course, this is a really a long-term goal ... regards, -kris. _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
