Re: GtkGLExt (was Re: Gtk 3.0)

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

Dear Emmanuele,
> yes. and that, apart from games and scientific/technical applications, it's not at all common.
>   
>
> the amount of code using OpenGL is relatively limited (hence "niche") compared to the rest of applications in 
> the GNOME stack (or even in the whole Linux ecosystem); it's *usage* is limited, not the size of the codebase.
>   
If you go to Amazon and search for OpenGL books, you get this  list with 
2607 (!!!) results:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=opengl&x=20&y=19

Many of these books have been published in the last 5 years, some in 
2008 and even 2009.

The fact is, the OpenGL community is much larger than our GTK community. 
If scientific/engineering applications are a niche in the GTK world, 
that is not a OpenGL weakness, that is a GTK weakness.

We must atract more scientifc/engineering applications for Linux and 
GTK, because this is exactly the kind of stuff that enterprises and 
universities are demanding.

If we have fantastic operating systems and desktop environments in the 
free software world, but most of the scientific/engineering aplications 
only run in Windows/Mac OS X, people will be forced to use them, even if 
they would rather prefer to use Linux/BSD... I have many friends in this 
situation...

Cheers,
Carlos