nanogui: GTK+ port to nano-X
Subject:
Re: GTK+ port to nano-X
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
12 May 2001 18:36:12 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10105121923410.1451-100000@hyperspace.linuxhacker.org>
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Amit Kulkarni wrote:
> I'd advice you folks to seriously put TinyWidgets under strict field tests
> before trying any "real stunts" on it. TinyWidgets has not been tested well
> enough.. and since it is not a port.. all the modules are not tested
> throughly.
I know, there are quite a few features that want to be implemented in
TinyWidgets yet before it will be a fully featured and useful toolkit (I'm
planning to start working on that in a month or two after I finish
University), which is another reason to fix the GTK+ port instead of
writing a TinyWidgets->GTK+ API compatibility layer. Plus the fact that
GTK+ is a moving target so it would need constant work to keep it
compatible with the latest version of GTK+. It's not even clear how
much of a size reduction you would actually get by reimplementing all of
the features of GTK+ in a compatibility layer over just using GTK+
directly. If it's a question of the default GTK+ widgets not being
suitable for small displays, how about designing a "tiny display" GTK+
theme?
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