Re: GNOME ABI review

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:52:36PM +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 06:34, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > 6. Libraries that just aren't production quality
> > 
> >  libgnomecanvas, libart come to mind; they can work fine if you
> >  understand the pitfalls, but. For those two in particular we're also
> >  expecting Cairo/Xr to replace them.
> 
> re libgnomecanvas. I do actively maintain foocanvas, which is a non-aa,
> non generic-affine-translations version of the canvas. It is great for
> "normal" widgets, and is currently used by at least Nautilus and
> Gnumeric. The API is very nearly compatible with Gnome-canvas unless you
> use AA or affines. It also works much better with Gtk2 than the gnome
> canvas ever did.
> 
> Do we want to expose this anywhere in our API, in order to have a
> working replacement for at least part of what libgnomecanvas does?

I'll second this suggestion.  FooCanvas has provided a nice solid
platform to build on for the gnome2 version of gnumeric.  It would
be nice to see this added to Gtk proper as GtkCanvas.