Re: is gnome-canvas actively maintained ?

[Chipzz <chipzz ULYSSIS Org>]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Tim Janik wrote:

> From: Tim Janik <timj gtk org>
> Subject: Re: is gnome-canvas actively maintained ?
>
> On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Stefan Kost wrote:
>
> > hi hi,
> >
> > can anyone with some good understanding of gnome-canvas please look at:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156156
>
> as you already said in the bug report, gnome-canvas needs more fixing
> than simply calling g_object_new_valist() here.
>
> and no, gnome-canvas is definitely not actively maintained.
> it'd actually need some serious fixing and partial redesigns, not
> all of which would be source/binary compatible. so at this point,
> the correct thing to do is to recommend not using gnome-canvas anymore
> and to come up with a suitable replacement (there're some attempts at
> that in CVS).

I'm not sure what you're saying here, but I don't think throwing gnome-
canvas straight out of the window would be a good solution here either.

libgnomecanvas is actually one of the few *gnome* libraries which IS
actually portable beyond *NIX/X, and I'm not sure about the other canvas-
ses - which may be a shame.

BUT, given the amount of alternative canvasses, I would think a (partial)
redesign of gnomecanvas may be in order for the next mayor release of
GNOME.

kr,

Chipzz AKA
Jan Van Buggenhout
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