drawing, structured graphics

[Jim Gettys]

On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 17:29 +0100, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Sayamindu,
> >
> >  I think Victor is asking for something at a higher level of abstraction;
> >  particularly what goes by the name of a canvas in various toolkits.
> >
> >  I thought we were using goocanvas, or something like that on top of
> >  cairo for TK canvas equivalent functionality...
> 
> Sugar is using hippo-canvas, which is pretty good for css-like
> graphics but is very much of a work in progress and it's not very
> convenient for completely free form graphics.
> 
> On the short term I suggest to use goocanvas which is more mature,
> more convenient for free form graphics and has also simple layout
> support. We should add it to the builds, it's small and useful. (the
> API is very similar to libgnomecanvas which was originally a port of
> tk canvas).
> 
> On the longer term I'm putting all my bets on Havoc plan:
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-March/msg00017.html
> 
> Marco

This looks like a good strategy to me...  Havoc generally delivers what
he says he will, and has shown good taste :-).

                             - Jim

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Jim Gettys
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