Re: A springs and struts widget for GTK+

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:15 +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
>   Hi, just some comments below.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 00:52 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > During last weeks gazpacho hackfest here in the RedHat desktop grotto, 
> > I started to work on an implementation of a springs-and-struts layout
> > container for GTK+, similar to the java SpringLayout. The widget
> > is not perfect yet, but it is good enough to play around with the 
> > concept, so I thought I should make it available to interested
> > parties. The tarball at
> > 
> > http://people.redhat.com/mclasen/springs.tar.gz 
> > 
> > contains a few examples that show how to use the widget. A quick
> > introduction to the concepts can be found here:
> > 
> > http://people.redhat.com/mclasen/README.springs
> 
>   I am left wondering why this new layout system?  Maybe it's great, but
> why was it introduced?  To solve something that can't be solved without
> it, I suppose?..  Would the current container-based layout system be
> deprecated in the future in favour of this one, or would both coexist?

This is an experiment to see if a constraints based system will be
better suited for a gui builder. We are not really convinced it will,
but the widget is out there for people to try it out.

Matthias