Re: RTF in the canvas?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On 10 May 2001 14:33:08 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> 
> >  If all complex features like tables and probably nested lists and even pics
> > are needed, I would suggest to use html as layout description language - it's
> > almost as rich as RTF, but humanly readable and may be already
> > partially supported by existing components like gtkhtml or gecko.
> 
> Well, what we need is a powerful canvas item.  See many projects could
> use something like this, and there is no point in having them
> implement their own if we can fullfill this need for them.
> 
> So we are looking at here at the engine that something like Achtung
> could use. 

That seems rather over the top to me.  Something like Achtung has quite
different performance and layout requirements, than say, a label.

Canvas makes a pretty slow and jerky presentation platform anyway (but
Unix/X is the fault there).