Re: [GtkGLExt] Module proposal: GtkGLExt for GNOME 2.22 (fwd)

[Eric Jonas <jonas mwl mit edu>]

> I have to disagree with you. By integrating it to Gnome, it will "lock" 
> it to the Gnome desktop in the mind of many people. If they are not 
> using Gnome, they would tend to think that the OpenGL extension is only 
> available on (or working with) a proper installation of Gnome desktop. 

I disagree that this would be a major problem; most of the users I
interact with are aware that software labeled as "gnome" does not
require one to use the whole gnome ball of wax. Even the gtk mailing
list archives  and bugtracker are hosted on gnome.org. 

Moreso, by having it be a Gnome module, it might increase the widespread
adoption of the extension. 

Finally, holy crap people, it's currently _unmaintained_. If we don't
let -someone- pick it up, it'll suffer bitrot. The c++ wrapper I use
(gtkglextmm) already appears to be missing from the latest ubuntu
repositories.

> I don't understand what prevent us from integrating OpenGL support 
> directly to GTK.

I heard rumors that gtk+ was having maintainer issues, and are already
pretty hosed. On top of that, there's this bug: 

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119189

Towards the end, they decided they didn't really care for the gtkglext
design, and someone had offered to pursue gldrawarea. It then appears to
have been dropped on the floor. 

			...Eric