Re: Custom GdkColormap from X Colormap

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Naofumi Yasufuku <naofumi yasufuku net> writes:

> At Mon,  5 Aug 2002 01:03:36 -0400 (EDT),
> Owen Taylor wrote:
> > 
> > Issue of gdx_colormap_get() is tracked in:
> > 
> >  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85697
> > 
> > The first idea about a replacement I had was:
> > 
> >  GdkColormap *gdk_x11_colormap_foreign_new (Display *display,
> >                                             Visual   visual, 
> >                                             Colormap colormap);
> > 
> 
> I see. Do you think to fix it in future 2.0.x release?

No, no new functionality will be added in any feature 2.0.x release.
(I'm hoping that 2.0.7 will be the last 2.0.x release, actually)

A tested patch would probably help it get into GTK+-2.2.
 
> > Why would you want gdk_colormap_sync(), gdk_colormap_add()
> > to be exported?
> > 
> 
> I think if the internal functions would be exported, I could implement
> custom GdkColormap in a way of something hack until
> gdk_x11_colormap_foreign_new() is provided.

If the internal functions were exported, we'd have added _two_
new API calls we'd have to support forever rather than one clean API call.
 
Regards,
                                        Owen