nanogui: GTK+ port to nano-X
Subject:
Re: GTK+ port to nano-X
From:
Paolo Molaro ####@####.####
Date:
22 May 2001 13:21:58 -0000
Message-Id: <20010522152148.B24417@lettere.unipd.it>
On 05/12/01 Alex Holden wrote:
> On Fri, 11 May 2001, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> > Is there anyone interested in helping to spear head and organize a GTK
> > porting project?
>
> Do you mean just fixing the GDK port to get GTK+ 2.0 running over Nano-X
> (probably a few days work for somebody who is already familiar with the
> GDK internals), or are you still thinking of spending months completely
> reimplementing the GTK+ API on top of TinyWidgets?
Updating the gdk port to nanox requires 2-3 full-time weeks by
someone familiar with nanox, gtk and pango. Allow more than a
month to get up to speed with gtk and pango internals if you don't
know them, though (this is the schedule set by a programmer, a
manager would double the time estimates:-).
The work required is 30% mechanical, 40% pango/font related and
30% testing and bugfixing. Some more time could be spent improving
nano-X to make the porting easier/more complete, but that could wait.
That said, porting Gtk+ to TinyWidgets is not an alternative, it's
the wrong abstraction layer: either use tinywidgets or gtk, both
at the same time don't make sense to me.
Apparently there are some guys in .tw interested in working on the
port, but I haven't heard from them for a while; I guess they are on the
mailing list and can speak for themselves, though.
lupus (how enjoyed doing the initial port but has no time for it anymore)
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