Re: Gnome/GtkCanvas (was Re: gtk_args_collect & gnome--)
- From: Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>
- To: otaylor redhat com
- CC: gtk-list redhat com
- Subject: Re: Gnome/GtkCanvas (was Re: gtk_args_collect & gnome--)
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 13:49:40 -0500
> I'd really like to see GnomeCanvas renamed to GtkCanvas now,
> regardless of whether we move it before 1.2, or not, in the belief
> that we eventually need to move it.
I dislike the name change. Think of the prefix as the "Foundry" that
provided the code.
Just like the fonts in X, you dont go changing "Adobe-...-Courier" to
"X-...-Courier" either.
> Having it as GnomeCanvas but in GTK+, as well as being conceptually
> ugly, will cause problems for language bindings - for instance,
> in Perl, all of GTK lives in the Gtk:: module. Does GnomeCanvas
> get separated out to Gnome:: or do people write:
>
> new Gtk::GnomeCanvas
This should be fixed in the Gtk/Perl bindings, they should not be
using Gtk::Gnome::Something (as it is the case right now), but rather,
we need a new toplevel, like this:
new Gnome::Canvas
Miguel.
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