Re: Trying out the GTK2-based stuff?

On 31 Oct 2002 22:49:47 -0500
Adam Lydick <adam.lydick@verizon.net> wrote:
> Speaking of GTK2 apps, what is the footprint of GTK2 on the IPAQ
> compared to the GTK1 libs? I've been playing with it on the desktop
> and it seems to be a much nicer development experience. (especially
> with the new tree/list -MVC stuff and the text view).

From what I know GTK2 is about three times bigger than GTK1.2 in terms
of filesizes. Some people mentioned that it compresses quite well using
jffs2 so that you do not waste three time the space in flash for it. But
still it is _currently_ a lot bigger than GTK1.2.
But there is help on its way ;)
First X is becoming smaller by the minute, thanks to Jim Gettys and
other X folks.
Then second there is a lot of flexibility still in GTK2 itself. It
contains several widgets and even widget trees that will never be used
on an iPaq. Along with some legacy support GTK2 contains quite a bit of
code that could be left out and thus making it a little smaller. But
this requires some work.

> Anyone cross-compiling gtk2 apps that would share their setup/methods?
Err ... not yet ;)
I normally use the /skiff setup and will try to build a skiff-ied of
GTK2 and all it needs soon; but don't know exactly when yet.

> Thanks,
> Adam
CU
  nils faerber

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