Re: on CVS of Feb 1, 8:20am

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

winterlion <winterlion fsj net> writes: 
> I'll look into it then... multiple GDK targets are quite useful for me...
> (probably a holdover from when I depended on GGI...  XGGI can run under
> XGGI which can all be running on the surfaces of a 3D cube :)
> 
> I realise this example's silly - but having gtk operate within OpenGL and
> -some- kind of I/O handling would be nice for those of us building 3D
> immersive systems *g*  (or in other words "games" :)
> 
> And being able to switch between grk/X and gtk/FB would be nice for those
> who hate programming under X (like me)...  and prolly make lives easier
> for folks trying to develop linux-embedded systems.  (not -run- them but
> -develop- them...)
> 

Cool, sounds good. The real benefit that I see to this would be to
clarify the interface between GDK and its backends with a nice formal
virtual table. The _gdk_windowing_* functions plus all public gdk_*
functions in a backend add up to the stuff that should be in the
vtable.

Havoc