Re: Announce: intent to work on GTK+2 port

From: John L. Clark (jlc6@po.cwru.edu)
Date: Wed May 22 2002 - 11:12:09 EDT

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    On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 10:49:23AM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
    > GTK+2 will be a requirement, at least in part because we're going to use
    > Pango for sophisticated i18n/l01n and Pango doesn't play well with
    > GTK+-1.2 or GDK-1.2.
    >
    > Some benefits of GTK+2.0:
    >
    > Great accessibility support: Blind/deaf/disabled people are well
    > supported
    > Tremendous i18n and l01n support
    > Lots of new & improved widgets
    > Backing store/double-buffering used to draw widgets, so no flickering
    > "Stock" menu and button items
    >
    > These things alone are well worth the switch over.
    >
    > GTK+2.0 plays nicely with 1.2 - I have both installed on my development
    > box and many other people do too.

    Dom,

    Sounds great. Is there any way that we can help your porting effort?
    Would you be able to coordinate (tolerate?) the work of additional
    developers on this work?

    Take care,

            John
            ... has the time, and wants to get his hands dirty with gtk+2.0

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