Re: is gnome-canvas actively maintained ?



Sex, 2004-11-12 às 09:09 +0100, Alexander Larsson escreveu:
> On Fri, 2004-11-12 at 04:33 +0100, Chipzz wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> FooCanvas is portable. Gnumeric uses it, even on Win32.

  Doesn't FooCanvas use libart_lgpl as well, which is deprecated?

  It looks to me like the ultimate solution will be a Cairo based canvas
as part of gtk+.  But that could not happen before gtk+ 2.8, so we all
have to wait. :|

(hopefully we'll have Cairo-based libgnomeprint as well, thus we'd be
able to easily add printing to this new canvas =)

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