Re: nmf packages

On 15 Aug 2002 11:13:36 +0100
Philip Blundell <pb_at_nexus.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 10:48, Nils Faerber wrote:
> > Don't want to be offensive but why did you use GTK2?
> > We once agreed on GTK+ 1.2 for GPE...
> > Would it be hard to modify it for GTK+ 1.2?
> It wouldn't be especially difficult to modify -- the only module that
> depends on GTK2 in a big way is the playlist editor, which uses the
> new MVC tree objects. If anybody wants to do a GTK1 port of the NMF
> frontend, they're very welcome.

Hmm ...

> However, GTK1 is a dead-end platform now, and I find it increasingly
> hard to work up much enthusiasm for writing new code to that
> interface. GTK2 brings several major advantages and I think the time
> has come to look at migrating to this new version.

Surely GTK2 has its advantages but also disadvantages. We had this
discussion quite some time ago. IMHO GTK2 is too big for our current
PDAs. We should still keep the 16MB flash iPaqs and other platforms in
mind. AFAIK GTK2 will result in about twice as much flash usage as
GTK1.2. And when I look at my iPaq now with GTK1.2 and an installation
of just the basic applications and tools I end up with about just 1.5MB
of flash free. Changing to GTK2 would, roughly estimated, result in 0MB
free which means no more space for any further improvement or additional
application.

Yes, I see the point in using GTK2 and I would love to do so.
But I do not want to scare the users with 16MB iPaqs away.

Or can GTK2 be made smaller finally? If yes maybe I could be convinced
;)

Second is that I would not like to change the toolkit before we even
have a first release out the door. We are currently all working with
GTK1.2 and changing this would result in a major delay. I do not really
see the need for this change right now.

But of course you are right and we should keep this transition in mind.
It will come some day and it will have to come. But currently I would
strictly vote against now.

> p.
CU
  nils faerber

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