(fwd) LibStroke in GTK+

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann godzilla ics uci edu>]

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Message-Id: <199904100009.RAA01799@keymaster.etla.net>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
cc: dann@godzilla.ics.uci.edu, pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu
Subject: LibStroke in GTK+
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 17:09:55 -0700
From: Mark Willey <willey@etla.net>


Dan wrote:
> Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> writes:
> 
  > >    Now that the code exists, what do people think about adding support
  > >    for it in Gtk+?
  > > 
  > > It's an excellent idea.  I'm dubious about strokes' usefulness in a
  > > mouse or trackball environment, but it's perfect for pen-based
  > > computing.  There aren't many pen-based computers out there as yet,
  > > but once you've used one you'll never be happy with a mouse again.
  > > 
  > > It also serves to provide an identifiable feature GTK+ would have that
  > > Qt and Motif do not, and would identify GTK+ as a toolkit that is
  > > looking forward to the hardware environments that are on the horizon.
  > > 
  > > Darn, if I wasn't up to my eyeballs in other projects I'd want to take
  > > this one on myself...
> 
> Well, it looks like the libstroke author Mark Willey <willey@etla.net>
> would like to work on this. 

Indeed.  I am ready, willing, and able to do "whatever it takes" to get
LibStroke massaged into a form that will be usable to GTK+.  Any
suggestions?  If you like, give it a try and see it in action.
http://www.etla.net/libstroke/.  (Try the testing app, or better yet, the
FVWM2 patch!)

Mark

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