Re: GTK+ canvas?

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

Soeren Sandmann wrote:

> What I am claiming is that GnomeCanvas failed on at least two counts:
> (1) it didn't really have the required features to do interesting
> UI's, and (2) its retained mode requirement is a huge impedance
> mismatch for applications that need to keep a complex and dynamic
> display in sync with an application data structure.
>  
GnomeCanvas failed because it's buggy, undocumented, called
"gnome", is separate from GTK, not maintained, doesn't have
win32 binaries, etc., etc. Much more people would make use of
simple things like "draw a rectangle and drag it around" if it
wasn't so hard.

Best regards,
Yevgen