Re: gtkglarea in core gtk+

["James Henstridge" <james jamesh id au>]

On 16/08/06, C.J. Adams-Collier <cjcollier colliertech org> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Now that gtk+ depends on glitz, I'd like to see an OpenGL widget make
> its way in to the gtk+ core.  I am interested in seeing gtkglarea be
> used as the base of that widget, since its footprint is small and would
> be easy to maintain.  I'd prefer to put my time in to building the
> widget in the core rather than bringing the gtkglarea module up to
> modern standards.
>
> Thoughts?  Does an OpenGL widget belong in the core?  Would folks like
> to see a heavier-weight library such as GtkGLExt used instead?

GTK doesn't depend on glitz.  It does depend on Cairo, which may be
linked to glitz, but never creates a glitz surface.  If you build
cairo without glitz, GTK will build and run identically.

So a discussion of an OpenGL widget would need to address adding the
OpenGL dependency.

James.