Re: Meld Gtk 3.0 diffmap

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 18 February 2012 06:43, Martin Owens <doctormo gmail com> wrote:
> Hey Meld List,
>
> I'm doing some work with Gtk.SourceView and used meld as an guide for
> developing a drawing area widget. Similar in style the EditorMap widget
> displays a graphical map of the colours for the text part of the editor.
>
> It's a generic class which uses the TextTag properties to draw the right
> colours. This alows it to be used in multiple modes in my project. But
> perhaps this would be useful for meld too.
>
> Finally, it's in Gtk 3.0 using gobject introspection. Code is here:
>
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~groundcontrollers/groundcontrol/trunk/view/head:/lib/GroundControl/gui/editormap.py
>
> If it's helpful to meld, I'm happy to have this code under GPLv2 instead
> of 3 as it is atm. Let me know.

Cool. Unfortunately we can't rely on the tag-based approach (nice as
it is) because we use the same code for the directory comparison map.
Regardless, it may well be useful to draw inspiration from your GI
port when Meld decides to take that particular leap.

cheers,
Kai