Re: canvas notes

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2005-09-08 at 19:51 +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> > I think the point is that the simple approach doesn't deal with arbitrary
> > transformations.
> 
> Now GTK+ is using Cairo for drawing, couldn't the widgets themselves
> be turned into canvas items?  That would be awesome.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by this, but there are various things
that are hard to do in a "canvas item", like:
* GtkPlug/GtkSocket (or any form of out-of-process/toolkit embedding)
* Xv
* OpenGL
* Some forms of input methods (that require a window xid)

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