Re: is gnome-canvas actively maintained ?

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 14:05 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> Sex, 2004-11-12 às 09:09 +0100, Alexander Larsson escreveu:
> > On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 04:33 +0100, Chipzz wrote:
> > > On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Tim Janik wrote:
> > > 
> > > > From: Tim Janik <timj gtk org>
> > > > Subject: Re: is gnome-canvas actively maintained ?
> > > >
> > > > 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).
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure what you're saying here, but I don't think throwing gnome-
> > > canvas straight out of the window would be a good solution here either.
> > > 
> > > libgnomecanvas is actually one of the few *gnome* libraries which IS
> > > actually portable beyond *NIX/X, and I'm not sure about the other canvas-
> > > ses - which may be a shame.
> > > 
> > > BUT, given the amount of alternative canvasses, I would think a (partial)
> > > redesign of gnomecanvas may be in order for the next mayor release of
> > > GNOME.
> > 
> > FooCanvas is portable. Gnumeric uses it, even on Win32.
> 
>   Doesn't FooCanvas use libart_lgpl as well, which is deprecated?

No. It doesn't. FooCanvas is GnomeCanvas without broken crap like AA and
affines.

>   It looks to me like the ultimate solution will be a Cairo based canvas
> as part of gtk+.  But that could not happen before gtk+ 2.8, so we all
> have to wait. :|

That would sure be great for some uses, however for many users something
simple like FooCanvas is more than enough. (For instance for the
nautilus icon view.)

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