Re: canvases in 3.0 [was Re: Steps to get to GTK+ 3.0]

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 23:07 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
[snip]
> 4) the "adequate/useful short-term canvas" has serious problems with
> defining its scope and purpose, which have been apparent in every
> thread about a canvas, and are apparent if you look at the different
> takes on canvases out there (gnomecanvas, clutter, goocanvas,
> hippocanvas, html widgets, pigment, etc.). They are not "the same
> thing" in the way all text entry widgets are "the same thing." It
> isn't clear which of several purposes a canvas has - use hardware
> accel, support specialized graphics, be a less-limited / more-freeform
> widget system, be a convenient way to draw manipulable diagrams, I
> don't know (past threads tried to sort these out or create taxonomies,
> don't remember them all).
[snip]

Some of us at Openismus made this comparison page more complete
recently. Maybe it's useful to people:
http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley/CanvasOverview

I really like the obvious sanity of your gtk-with-scene-graph idea, but
I do wonder when it's likely to happen.

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