Re: Minutes of the GTK+ Team Meeting - 2008-11-25

[Christian Dywan <christian imendio com>]

Am Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:50:00 +0100
schrieb "BJörn Lindqvist" <bjourne gmail com>:

> 2008/11/25 Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>:
> > = minutes for the 2008-11-25 meeting =
> >
> > * alexl: client-side windows branch
> > + third iteration of the offscreen redirection support
> > + first was an hacked up version
> > + second was a cleaned up version
> > + third (current) incorporates owen's feedback on gtk-devel-list
> >  - more radical approach
> >  - allow us to clean up and simplify the platform backends
> >  - pushes a lot of stuff to the common code
> >  - we can drop all 32bit coord emulation
> >  - in the typical case only the toplevel window will have its
> >    own native window
> >  - however, we want to support native windows in the hierarchy
> >  - some pending issues (native XIDs mainly)
> > ACTION: send an update on monday to gtk-devel-list (alexl)
> > ACTION: put a roadmap/TODO on the wiki (alexl)
> 
> The last time this was discussed there was one unresolved issue with
> opengl windows that require their own xwindow to paint on. Did you
> come up with a solution for that?

You would have to be more conrecte. As you can see from the notes,
native windows are considered in the proposed 'radical' approach in a
way that they are provided on a case by case basis.