Re: Is there a canvas widget

[Ralph Walden <rwalden tripos com>]

I would imagine that the GnomeCanvas folks would listen to reason,
and I'm sure that they are as interested as we are in the success
of GTK.  Unless they REAALLY want to force people to use Gnome
or add to the confusion that causes people to use Qt instead, it 
seems reasonable to have ONE GtkCanvas widget.  

This seems important enough to set ego aside.

(or have these arguments already been used unsuccessfully?)

:)

All good intentions,


Ralph Walden

p.s.

An example of how this would benefit GTK is that currently, GtkExtra
has its own canvas widget for plots and graphs, and if there were a
"standard" canvas widget for GTK, then the GtkExtra folks might feel
better about simply moving to it instead.  This improves the whole
toolkit, IMHO.


Paul Davis wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 16 May 2002, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >
> >> See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79286
> >
> >If there are no dependencies on gnome why not just d/l it and sed
> >'s/gnome/gtk/g' ? and then post it somewhere, or am I missing something?
> 
> thats what GtkCanvas is. yet it now lags behind GnomeCanvas because
> someone has to actually do the edit whenever GnomeCanvas
> changes. Where would you file bugs on a new GtkCanvas? Who would look
> at them? When someone finally decides to add the Spline type for a
> CanvasLineItem, do they add it to GtkCanvas or GnomeCanvas? And most
> importantly for me, what does gtkmm wrap, GtkCanvas or GnomeCanvas?
> The same is true of other language bindings.
> 
> i'd love a true GtkCanvas as part of GTK+. but the people involved
> with GTK+ and GNOME and those who wrote the canvas don't seem to feel
> that its the right thing to do, and until they do, forking a version
> of it doesn't help much.
> 
> --p (stuck at GTK+ 1.2 with 60,000+ statements of gtkmm code ;)
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Ralph E. Walden
Tripos, Inc.
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