Re: Is there a canvas widget

[Paul Davis <pbd op net>]

>On Wed, 15 May 2002, Paul Davis wrote:
>
>> as an avid user of GtkCanvas, i would encourage you to move to GTK+2,
>> and then use GnomeCanvas from GNOME 2. In this release of GNOME, the
>> Canvas has *no* GNOME-related dependencies other than those shared by
>> GTK+ (glib, ATK, Pango). You can use it in its own library without
>> any of the rest of GNOME. The only thing you have to put up with is
>> the "Gnome" prefix to the name. This is much better solution,
>> especially since there are several useful bug fixes and redesigns in
>> the GnomeCanvas.
>
>Why not just move it to Gtk+ then, so one does not have to install Gnome
>to use it? Or perhaps provide it as a separate package? Just curious.

these days, its provided as a separate package (libgnomecanvas). it
has been written here that there were "political" reasons for this
originally being part of GNOME and not GTK, but at this point in time,
the original motivations are irrelevant to anything except the name.

--p