Re: canvas notes

[Benoit Carpentier <gtkool_2kx yahoo fr>]

Hi,

That's what I think also about 3D and printing too.
[For my own needs I develop a GtkPrinter widget
(because it does not exist on GTK+) for Windows 32.
Several developers use it, even if it has few
functions for the moment.
I dream about a such GtkPrinter for GTK+, for Win 32
and, also Linux/Unix based on CUPS or something else.]

GTK+ should remain what it was initialy designed for :
2D applications.
It can give more means to developers as printing, pdf
creation, e-mail connectivity ...
If such things exist in Gnome or can easily be
imported in GTK+ from somewhere else, what not ?

Regards,

Benoît Carpentier, "GTKool"


--- "Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro" <gjc inescporto pt> a
écrit :

> On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 10:29 +0100, Damon Chaplin
> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 20:23 -0400, Havoc
> Pennington wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 09:53 +0200, Alexander
> Larsson wrote:
> > > > * OpenGL
> > > 
> > > Any thoughts on that 3D vs. 2D thing? i.e. it
> seems like we want to be
> > > able to mix OpenGL and Cairo at will, but it
> isn't clear to me what that
> > > really means.
> > > 
> > > Kind of a similar question to is a compositing
> manager best done with
> > > RENDER or GL as the foundation maybe...
> > 
> > I think you should take it one step at a time, i.e
> first get a 2D
> > zoomable, printable, cairo canvas working, then
> think about 3D.
> > 
> > Otherwise you'll probably spend the next year just
> discussing what
> > features should be in it!
> 
>   I completely agree!  Besides:
> 
> 	1. Not that many apps need 3D anyway;
> 
> 	2. (like Jean Bréafort says) OpenGL is not
> printable, and IMHO all
> applications should have a print option for any
> useful data they
> produce. (by print I mean either on paper or to PDF
> file).  Let's face
> it: in the real world, most apps are not that useful
> without print or
> export options; it's like an editor that can open
> and edit files, but
> not save them!
> 
> 	3. All 3D is actually translated to 2D anyway,
> sooner or later, so a
> determined programmer could do 3D anyway on top of
> 2D Cairo, albeit
> requiring some 3D and math knowledge and not as much
> hw accelerated as
> OpenGL.
> 
>   Regards.
> 
> -- 
> Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
> <gjc inescporto pt> <gustavo users sourceforge net>
> The universe is always one step beyond logic
> 
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