Re: Dia goes Gtk2, anyone else with it ?

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 13:14 08.06.02 +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Sat, Jun 08, 2002, à 12:52:42PM +0200, Hans Breuer a écrit:
> > Hi all,
> > below you'll find some kind of 'plan' what more or less
> > needs to be done to make Dia a first class Gtk2 citizen.
> >
> > The first step just landed in cvs. [Beware: it will _not_
> > build as is on Linux and other *nix cause the auto/configure 
> > stuff needs some love first.]
>
> I'll take care of that this week-end, using James' work as a basis.
Nice to hear that.

> > My GTK2 fixmes are FIXME? or GTKBUG?
> >
> > app/interface.c:123 /*static*/
> > app/interface.c:839 static void fill_sheet_menu
These are notes for me to remove the need of making
formerly static functions/vars static again if there is a cleaner
way to do it. (It almost always is. :)
> > app/render_libart.c probably broken on X11
>
> Actually, obsolete. We'll get rid of it.
What do you mean is obsolete :-) X11, libart ? or our nice libart
renderer, which has some X11 specific tweaking which I don't
understand nor use on win32 ...

> > app/sheet.c:207 move message_notice out of loop
> > app/ps_utf8.c : not yet build on win32
>
> What's wrong with it ?
still some #ifdefs and charconv_*.

> > app/render_eps.c : some further utf8 cleaning needed
> >
> > [...]
>
> tabs are evil. XIM still seems applicable, where GTK2 doesn't already take
> care of it !
AFAIK the Gtk2 way to do it has changed. So all within HAVE_XIM
will currently break with Gtk2.

> > [...]
> >   - no more: libunicode, separte gdk-pixbuf, charconv.[hc], HAVE_DIRENT
>
> charconv is still needed, at least to recover the pre 0.90 dia files (damn
> libxml1). 
Nope. It all can be done with glib2 - in fact it already is.

> Has libunicode's functionality been swallowed by gtk or glib ? We
> still need stuff to extract a single unichar out of an utf8 string,
> iterators, etc...
All this standard glib stuff. One more reason to switch.

> > - make it compile without GTK_ENABLE_BROKEN
>
> what's it ?
There are some widgets in Gtk1.2 which were considered so broken,
that a complete re-write appeared to be appropriate in Gtk2. 
They are GtkText (replacement GtkTextBuffer/GtkTextView) and GtkTree 
(replaced with GtkTreeView GtkTreeModel). To still use the old
widgets one needs to define GTK_ENABLE_BROKEN.

> What's the status of the UTF8 #hell (UNICODE_WORK_IN_PROGRESS and
> GTK_TALKS_UTF8) ?
Almost all vanished already, beside the places noted above.
But please let us next time do such stuff on it's own
branch to keep patch size small :-)

        Hans

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