Re: road to gtkmm 2.10

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 7/5/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 11:10 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > - Since 2.10 will depend on cairomm for the first time, we need to
> > release a stable version of cairomm.  I've been working on getting
> > cairomm into shape, but it could always use a few more eyes.  I've
> > wrapped the majority of the new API in cairo 1.2 in the last couple of
> > days and I'll try to release a snapshot very soon.  If you have any
> > feedback on cairomm, feel free to send it to the cairo mailing list
> > (http://cairographics.org/lists) or file a bug against cairomm on
> > freedesktop.org
> > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=cairomm).
>
> Yeah, it's in quite good shape but there are some TODOs in the code, and
> the issue of maybe doing an internal refcount of the Path object, as per
> Owen Taylor's suggestion.

Yes. Also related: Bug 6895 [1] and RefPtr memory leaks [2]

[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6895
[2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2006-June/007112.html

> > - Are there any new GTK+ API that still need to be wrapped before 2.10
> > is released?
>
> Yeah, there's quite a few functions here and there. gmmproc reports them
> during the build.

That's good, but I keep thinking that having a more prominent list of
things to do might encourage more people to pitch in...

> We need to figure out how to do UIManager recent-files sub-menu
> integration for an example. Apparently it's possible.

I could look into this, but could you explain a bit more what you mean
by this?  Is there an existing GTK+ example that we could build on or
is it something we need to start from scratch?

I suppose both of these things (printing and recent files) need to be
added to the tutorial as well.  I'll also try to start on that.

--
jonner