Re: is gnome-canvas actively maintained ?

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Stefan Kost wrote:

> hi hi,
>
> can anyone with some good understanding of gnome-canvas please look at:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156156

as you already said in the bug report, gnome-canvas needs more fixing
than simply calling g_object_new_valist() here.

and no, gnome-canvas is definitely not actively maintained.
it'd actually need some serious fixing and partial redesigns, not
all of which would be source/binary compatible. so at this point,
the correct thing to do is to recommend not using gnome-canvas anymore
and to come up with a suitable replacement (there're some attempts at
that in CVS).

> It is quite a blocker for my project. I have updated my systems from gnome-2.4
> (was suse 9.1) to 2.6 (Suse 9.2) and 2.8 (gentoo). After 2.4 glib checks
> stricter against G_CONSTRUCT_ONLY params violations.
> In my project (http://www.buzztard.org) I derive gnome-canvas items. The derived
> classes hav additional properties, where some of the should be G_CONSTRUCT_ONLY.
> Unfortunately gnome-canvas uses g_object_new() and then calls some additonal
> censtruct code (that sets some private vars) and afterwards call
> g_object_set_valist().
>
> Right would be using g_object_new_valist() and afterwars doing the
> post_constrcution. it seems that when setting some properties that depend on the
> private var beeing set already.
> Any idea how to properly resolv that (own constructor?)
>
> Ciao
>  Stefan
>
> Stefan Kost wrote:
> > hi hi,
> >
> > can anyone assure me that there is one maintaining gnome-canvas?
> > I have several issues open in bugzilla and even critical ones are still uncommented.
> >
> > Stefan

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ciaoTJ