I haven't used the GnomeCanvas, so I know nothing about its design or state of "bugyness", and am probably speaking out of ignorance. It just seems to me that such a widget would be a good thing to have as a "standard" widget. I'm not sure how we would get there from here.
Ralph Walden Havoc Pennington wrote: > > Ralph Walden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I would imagine that the GnomeCanvas folks would listen to reason, > > and I'm sure that they are as interested as we are in the success > > of GTK. Unless they REAALLY want to force people to use Gnome > > or add to the confusion that causes people to use Qt instead, it > > seems reasonable to have ONE GtkCanvas widget. > > > > This seems important enough to set ego aside. > > The issue has nothing to do with ego, it's just a question of whether > GnomeCanvas is the right thing for GTK. At the moment it doesn't > really have the desired design, and it's also fairly buggy, at least > in the 2.0 version. There's no point rushing it in to GTK, it's easy > to use in the separate library. Just add "libgnomecanvas-2.0" to your > PKG_CHECK_MODULES line and you're in business. > > > An example of how this would benefit GTK is that currently, GtkExtra > > has its own canvas widget for plots and graphs, and if there were a > > "standard" canvas widget for GTK, then the GtkExtra folks might feel > > better about simply moving to it instead. This improves the whole > > toolkit, IMHO. > > This is also an example of why it _shouldn't_ be in GTK, because > GnomeCanvas isn't a great thing for plots, really. > > Havoc > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list -- Ralph E. Walden Tripos, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
