Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
I just dont think we should dive right into writing up a GtkRocketShip or a GtkFlashScene without having paved the way with a simple GtkCanvas that is usefull to everybody first - rocket ships and geckos might also be considered as unneeded bloat to gtk+, and could probably better be included a little higher up in the stack.
You may be overestimating the futuristicness of something more useful than GnomeCanvas ;-)
e.g. the HippoCanvas I wrote in 3 days lacks some stuff (i.e. I didn't bother to support events other than button press), but it's already more useful than GnomeCanvas because it supports layout (width-for-height layout even). I'm sure the other more serious existing implementations have also surpassed GnomeCanvas already.
Havoc