Re: Announcing: Project Ridley

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

For the record, I think such a widget would be useful for almost every 
document-based application.

Such a widget should be robust enough to handle simple 
snapshot-the-viewport behavior, and overridable to support more advanced 
things like outline-shadowing for longer text files used in some IDEs.

-Alex

Luca Ferretti wrote:
> Il giorno dom, 21/08/2005 alle 00.50 -0400, Jonathan Blandford ha
> scritto:
>
> > Now that GTK+-2.8.0 is out, the GTK+ team would like to announce Project
> > Ridley.
> >
> > GOALS:
> >
> > The primary goal of Project Ridley is to cut down on the number of
> > problem libraries that are part of the GNOME platform.  We propose to do
> > this by moving functionality into GTK+, wherever it makes sense.  These
> > libraries are generally small, undermaintained, and buggy.  They have an
> > unclear purpose (such as libgnome and libgnomeui), are copied-and-pasted
> > around (such as libegg) or would benefit by being in GTK+ (libgnomeprint
> > and libgnomeprintui.)
>
>
> Not well fitting with this disclaimer, but are any interesting widget in
> GIMP to include in Project Ridley?
>
> For instance the small cross-arrow between the vertical and the
> horizontal scrollbars, used to scroll the image when zoomed in showing a
> thumbnail, could be useful for other GNOME application related to image
> (eog, gthumb, f-spot) and document (evince) viewing.
>
> Could someone explore and report about GTK+ widgets in GIMP sources
> useful for other applications?
>
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