Re: GtkGLExt (was Re: Gtk 3.0)

[Carlos Pereira <jose carlos pereira ist utl pt>]

Hi Emmanuele,
> I'm really not working on it - mainly for three reasons: 1) if you want to
> use GL, GtkGlExt is "good enough" and integrating it into gtk+ it's not a
> good idea;
1) If you think GtkGlExt should not be integrated with GTK+ that's fine 
for me.

2) GtkGlExt is good enough for GTK-2.0, I never had a single problem with GTKGLExt.

3) However GtkGlExt is not GTK-3.0 ready, because it cannot be compiled with SEAL_ENABLE and 
SINGLE_INCLUDES...

4) Scientific/engineering applications often use OpenGL, which is a well established, well documented, 
industry-standard with a large, vibrant community, as these foruns clearly show:

http://www.opengl.org/discussion_boards/

So all I am asking the GTK team is, please find a solution regarding OpenGL support for GTK-3.0... with or 
without GtkGLExt...

Regards,
Carlos

> 2) cairo should get GPU acceleration for 2D drawing, which is
> what most of users really care about; 3) if you want a 3D canvas you should
> be using Clutter.
>
> Integrating raw GL inside a gtk+ application is a niche requirement enough
> that I'm not at all sure it should be moved to gtk+ itself. And if you're
> dropping into raw GL there is no way you are not a niche use case.
>
> On 4 Dec 2009 18:13, "Carlos Pereira" <jose carlos pereira ist utl pt>
> wrote:
>
> Thanks Javier,
> it's good to know that EmmanueleBassi <http://live.gnome.org/EmmanueleBassi>
> is now taking care of GtkGLExt integration with GTK...
>
> Regards,
> Carlos
>
>   
> > > Hello Carlos, > > 2009/12/3 Carlos Pereira <
> > >       
> jose carlos pereira ist utl pt>: >   >> >> That's w...
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