Re: New version of GTK+

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Carlos Pereira <carlos pehoe civil ist utl pt> writes: 
> Regarding Gtk2.0:
>
> - GtkGLArea 
> is going to be included in official Gtk distribution?

I can see it making sense to do so, though it should be in a separate
library still since it requires -lGL. I haven't heard any such
proposal from the GLArea maintainer though, and I know the GTK+
maintainers haven't really considered the issue or thoroughly
evaluated the widget.
 
> - GtkHTML
> I know this have been discussed a lot in this list...
> anyway, anything new in this front?

This won't ever go in GTK+ because it's too big. It will remain a
separate library. However I think the maintainers are willing to make
it depend on GTK only, at least if someone does the work on that.
 
> Is there something that you can tell us about 
> documentation, examples, etc. for the new widgets,
> or is it just too early? I have to do some work
> replacing my old GtkTrees to GtkCTrees, shall I wait
> and do something else? how big are the changes?

The new text/tree widgets are totally incompatible with the old ones. 
(But again, the old ones remain in GTK+, so you don't have to port
until you want to.) The text widget code is in CVS in mostly final
form, and there's a testtext.c to look at. The tree widget is in the
'gtree' module in CVS and is still very much in flux.

Havoc