Re: Pluggable widget types and implementations

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Magnus Bergman wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 14:53:33 +0100 (CET)
> Tim Janik <timj imendio com> wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > this is a proposal for allowing pluggable widget types and
> > implementations, assorted bug report:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356864
> >
> > Platform and desktop customization needs, especially in the embedded
> > market go far beyond the themability support Gtk+ currently offers.
> > E.g. for touchscreens, special input methods (hand writing
> > recognition or virtual keyboards) need to be implemented, and
> > sometimes complete widgets or dialogs of stock Gtk+ have to be
> > replaced by customized implementations.
>
> Can't the alternative implementation just be LD_PRELOADed?

no, that's an entirely different mechanism replacing complete ELF symbol.

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