Re: 2.2 and 2.4 features?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 20 Sep 2002, Bill Haneman wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 12:27, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 11:25, Brian Cameron wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > 2. Currently some applications make calls to Pango directly.  It might
> > >    be nicer if there were gtk wrapper functions so that applications 
> > >    didn't have to know if they were using Pango or not.  This way if
> > >    someone wants to hack gtk+ to use a different Font rendering engine,
> > >    it doesn't require changes in all Gnome applications.  Having said
> > >    this, Sun doesn't have any specific plans not to use Pango.  
> > >    However, it seems desirable to have such freedom.
> > 
> > Pango is already the abstraction layer, there's no need to put another
> > one on top.
> 
> Our accessibility implementation also depends on pango to a considerable
> degree.

We could then have an abstraction layer over the accessibility layer if 
you want to us a different one.

And then an abstraction layer over the whole toolkit, in case someone 
wants to use another toolkit.

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