Re: gtk2.0 was Re: gnumeric for windows?

[Jim Richardson <warlock eskimo com>]

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 05:28:45AM +0000, Zach Frey wrote:
> On 29 Mar 2001 18:33:37 -0800, Jim Richardson wrote:
> > Personally, I don't care re: M$ versions of anything, (not that I think
> > they shouldn't exist, just that I don't use M$ so don't care) but can
> > anyone give me a brief rundown on the improvements that gtk2.0 will
> > bring us? from the developer pov rather than the end-user. 
>
>
> There ought to be a quick writeup of this somewhere online (but I
> can't think of where it would be).  Anyway, off the top of my head
> the improvements in Gtk+-2.0 will include:
>
> o  Integrated Win32 port (plus possily some other cross-platform
>    improvements, I can't remember).
>
> o  A change of the object system from GtkObject to GObject, meaning
>    that only Glib will be required to make use of the "Gtk" object
>    system.
>
> o  Integration of Pango (http://www.pango.org/) for high-quality 
>    rendering of international fonts.
>
> o  New text widget?
>
> o  Other improvements that I don't know about since I'm not a Gtk+
>    hacker.
>
>
> Hope this is some help.
>
>
> peace,
>
> Zach

Cool thanks, I'll have to check pango out, I like internat. Fonts
(Cyrillic mostly)


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