Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gnome/GtkCanvas (was Re: gtk_args_collect & gnome--)

[Steve Hosgood <iisteve iiweeble swan ac uk>]

Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.ping.de> writes:
> > Ok, this is a convincing argument and thus I am willing to rename the
> > widget to GtkCanvas.  
> > [...]
> > Hope this settles the problem down.  
> 
> Definitely!  (can only speak for myself, of course)
> 
> This is what I wanted from the beginning but I failed to make it clear
> I think: Rename the canvas to GtkCanvas but leave it in libgnomeui
> because it still evolving very quickly.
> 

I'm not too happy with this.
Surely the "best" solution to the problem was posted last week:

GtkCanvas ought to be in the gtk+ library. It would provide basic no-frills
canvas support. I presume it would allow any other gtk widget to be placed
on it at given locations, and probably allow lines to be drawn on it with
given widths and colours. It would handle its own expose events, and would
support the idea of 'printing' in that it could generate a PostScript
representation of itself.

So GnomeCanvas would stay in the Gnome libraries, and would build all its
special extra functionality on top of GtkCanvas.

Would this not make everyone happy? It is more work to implement of course,
because GnomeCanvas has almost certainly been written as one monolithic
lump and would have to be carefully split apart.

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