Re: client side windows branch now in gnome git

[Louis E Garcia II <louisg00 bellsouth net>]

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 09:54 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 12:24 -0400, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> > Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > The client side windows code is now availible in the
> > > client-side-windows
> > > branch of gtk+ on git.gnome.org, rebased on the latest version of gtk+.
> > > 
> > > I've updated the code pointers on 
> > > http://live.gnome.org/GTK%2B/ClientSideWindows and the status listed
> > > there is pretty much up to date.
> > > 
> > > We now have a somewhat working OSX backend (don't know the exact status
> > > of it) and some initial work on getting the win32 backend to build.
> > > 
> > > I think whats needed now, apart from the TODOs listed on the wiki is:
> > > 
> > > * Get the win32 and OSX backends up to the X11 backend standard
> > > * test the branch in daily use, so we can find all the bugs
> > > * Write some docs on how this is supposed to work so that people can
> > > start reviewing the code
> > > 
> > > So, go play with it. It should be much easier to do now, with it being
> > > it the official repository, based on the official git tree.
> > 
> > Are there any plans for a XCB port of GTK+ for 3.0? As I understand xlib
> > is in deep maintenance mode while apps and toolkits are ported.
> 
> Current xlib versions uses XCB underneath, although it adds quite some
> extra bloat above it. However, Gtk+ on X11 is more or less bound to xlib
> as xlib defines are exported via the gdkx.h header. On could concievably
> do a libgtk-xcb-2.0.so in addition to libgtk-x11-2.0.so, and let apps
> chose it. However, if any running app at all links to libgtk-x11 all the
> advantages of using xcb and then some disappear.
> 

But with a 3.0 release and API breakage would this be a good time for
this change? As you said their is a good deal of bloat.