Re: Re: gtk2?

lör 2002-01-12 klockan 22.58 skrev Owen Cliffe:
> > Wouldn't it be a good idea to start using gtk+ 2.0 now for two reasons
> > 1) It's a moving target and as such we have a great possibility to get
> > code into it. If the patches that are needed to get gtk+ to work good
> > on small screens are included in the final 2.0 that would be good. This
> > is a great chance to influence (and avoid having to keep track of
> > special patches)
>
> Gtk 2.0's Api was largely completed mid-last year, and now it is
> definately feature frozen, so anything we would be doing would have to be
> independant of it while it was stabalising. All of the main feature set
> for GTK 2.0 was decided way before GUADEC in march.

I wasn't mainly thinking about API-changes but rather widget-changes.
The open-dialog for example is to large so someone hacked it to work
better on handhelds. I was thinking you could get gtk+ 2.0 and
configure with a --small-screen option or something like that, instead
of having patches and stuff...

> > 2) It's fully internationalized, which means we will go international
> > from the beginning instead of adding that in the future.
>
> Gtk1.0 is heavily localisable, (to within 1 byte character sets which is
> quite a few) using gettext etc.
 
like you said.. quite a few... But it would really rock to have UTF-8
and RTL from the beginning for example...

/Erik

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