Re: writing a text widget with pango

[Martyn Plummer <plummer iarc fr>]

On 22-May-2002 Havoc Pennington wrote:
> One thing we're considering for GTK 2.2 is to put back a simple
> draw-string API like gdk_draw_string and gdk_text_width(), for use by
> terminal widgets and that sort of thing. Would probably make porting
> XChat a lot easier. But of course using this API means you don't have
> i18n quite working.

This would be most welcome. I maintain the GNOME GUI for the R project
(a language for data analysis and graphics http://www.r-project.org ).
Part of the GUI is a graphics device using the GTK+ API, which can be
used to plot graphs.  I want to do simple things like draw axis labels,
titles for graphs, and so on, on a GtkDrawable.  The absence of a simple
draw-string API in GTK+ 2.0 has made this rather more difficult, so
please seriously consider bringing it back.

Martyn