The state of the canvas

[Jean Bréfort <jean brefort normalesup org>]

Hi,

It seems that things do not advance a lot by now. AFAIK, no much work
have been done except Alexander Larsson's patch available at:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318807

David Bellot told me he is too busy at the moment to work on the canvas
and, personally, I am not just not able to write the whole thing alone.
As GnomeCanvas does not fulfill all my needs and might be soon
deprecated, I decided to replace it for GChemPaint by a light canvas (I
do not need many items, nor an optimized canvas) starting from
libgnomecanvas code.

At the moment, I am working on a text item (still for the Gnome Canvas)
which uses Cairo and Pango for rendering. Hopefully, this code might be
useful for GtkCanvas if it exists one day ;-)

Best regards,
Jean