Re: FYI: GtkText current design issues

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel gnu org>]

> 	  Although, it's worth mentioning that (according to Owen) the
> design for the original GtkText was inspired by trying to *not* be like
> the Tk widget (because it uses 3 times as much memory as is necessary to
> hold the text).
> 
> 	  Although by today's standards requiring 300K to hold a 100K text
> file doesn't seem like much of a drawback, especially if the widget is
> fast and featureful.

Yep.  It would not be very hard to actually port the Tk Text widget to
Gtk.  I believe it is worth doing.

miguel.