Re: libart and canvas maintenance

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes:

> i'm currently porting beast over to gtk+2.0 and
> therefore need a working canvas.
> since i wsn't able to build libgnome yet and since
> no released source should yet depend on it, i'm currently
> c'n'p-ing canvas files from libgnomecanvas into beast
> and got things basically work that way.

Well, either you're confused or you just found a bug :-)

libgnomecanvas doesn't depend on libgnome at all, it's maintained
by Federico.

> for some reason images are offset now by width/2 and height/2
> (i still need to debug this), text sometimes isn't displayed
> and the old libart/canvas redrawing problems remain.
> 
> i'm also still using an old version of libart since newer ones
> still trigger infinite loops in art_svp_uncross() (the
> "Re: [PATCH] updates to canvas fixes" issue i mailed about to
> gnome-hackers this march).
> 
> since i want to make a beast release based on a gtk devel version
> fairly soon, i'll probably c'n'p a working but patched up libart into
> beast as well.
> 
> can libart still be considered actively maintained (i'm waiting for
> a fixed vpath intersection routine for nearly two years now) and who's
> responsible for libgnomecanvas maintenance (since i'd like to fold back
> as many fixes as possible)?

No idea about libart, but libgnomecanvas is Federico's baby.

-- 
Martin Baulig
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