Re: Is there a canvas widget

[Ralph Walden <rwalden tripos com>]

I haven't used the GnomeCanvas, so I know nothing about its 
design or state of "bugyness", and am probably speaking out of
ignorance.
It just seems to me that such a widget would be a good thing to have
as a "standard" widget.  I'm not sure how we would get there from
here.


Ralph Walden


Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Ralph Walden <rwalden tripos com> writes:
> > 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.
> 
> The issue has nothing to do with ego, it's just a question of whether
> GnomeCanvas is the right thing for GTK. At the moment it doesn't
> really have the desired design, and it's also fairly buggy, at least
> in the 2.0 version. There's no point rushing it in to GTK, it's easy
> to use in the separate library. Just add "libgnomecanvas-2.0" to your
> PKG_CHECK_MODULES line and you're in business.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> This is also an example of why it _shouldn't_ be in GTK, because
> GnomeCanvas isn't a great thing for plots, really.
> 
> Havoc
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Ralph E. Walden
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