Re: rendering-cleanup Part 2

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2 cam ac uk>]

On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 00:50 +0200, Benjamin Otte wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Peter Clifton <pcjc2 cam ac uk> wrote:
> > Is there any plans to drop the gdk_color_parse() API? Our circuit board
> > design app (gEDA/PCB) uses that for processing configured colour values
> > to RGB values. AUUI, it can also translate X colour names into RGB
> > values. It would be a shame to have to re-invent / copy all this code
> > into the application for use with GTK3.
> >
> The GdkColor struct is so far unchanged in my branch. There are plans
> to make it work better with Cairo, like giving it a value for the
> alpha channel or using doubles instead of shorts for the values. So
> everything might look a little different with GTK3. But I definitely
> do not intend to drop any of the functionality provided with GdkColor.
> So things like the color parsing or to_string() will definitely stay.

Cool, thanks for the clarification.

Best wishes,

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