Hi Alexander. I appreciate you clarifying this for us. It was a nice surprise to read on Phoronix recently that you're still committing fixes & improvements to the broadway codebase. I'd like to understand - has anything changed in the past year that's brought you back to broadway? I know there are still a handful of users around who would love to see this continue ( some of them email me directly, and I have to answer: "sorry - I'm just a user as well" ). If throwing money at the problem works, we might be able to arrange that, maybe via a crowdfunding page, or something less formal. Would it be worth it to you or Redhat?
Dan On Fri, Dec 16, 2016 at 2:25 AM, Alexander Larsson <al...@redhat.com> wrote: > On ons, 2016-12-07 at 14:18 +1100, Daniel Kasak wrote: > > Hi all. > > > > I posting here in response to comments on bug: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=775680 ( summary: broadway > > support likely to be removed from Gtk+4.0 ). > > > > I think it would be a massive pity to drop broadway support from gtk. > > It's been a god-send for me and those I work with - it provides the > > best remote access to gtk apps and performs way better than vnc. I've > > actually been working on an authentication + transparent proxy for > > broadway, so multiple users can access multiple apps all via https on > > port 443: https://tesla.duckdns.org/transparent-proxy-for-broadway-gt > > k3-html5-backend/ > > So, there are two issues with broadway. > > First of all, I wrote it mostly as a proof of concept of an interesting > idea. I have zero cycles to spend on it anymore, nor do any of the > other people who currently work on Gtk+. Its still there, because it > just works and is not really a burden on the existing code unless you > use it. > > Secondly, while it just keeps working in gtk3, the same is not true for > Gtk4. We're doing massive changes to the internals of the drawing > model, with the end goal of having a much more modern base targeting > how current GPU hardware works. This is very much not how broadway > works though, so there is some conflict here. For now, we have fallback > code for the rendering that keeps broadway working, so we're keeping it > around, but if at any point broadway becomes a problem to keep working > we're going to drop. I don't really forsee this happening at the > moment, but there are no guarantees. > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Alexander Larsson Red Hat, Inc > al...@redhat.com alexander.lars...@gmail.com > He's a lonely bohemian shaman on his last day in the job. She's a > beautiful psychic schoolgirl looking for love in all the wrong places. > They fight crime! >
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