Semi Flame coming :) Gtk is not a cross platform widget library. Its been ported to some extent. The use of native windows for widgets for example is a design flaw. It also exposes a lot of concepts that make assumptions about the underlying system the ability to embed a widget from one process into another and keep above for example.
DirectFB gets around these types of problems by having the concept of capabilities that can be queried at runtime and you can then consider fallbacks. Other widget libraries like WX widgets and even QT are more cross platform friendly in design. Now in working on GTK/DirectFB I realized that DirectFB itself was not as flexible as I believe it should be. DirectFB should be a base for any sort of multi application graphical design including one similar to X11. Recent releases and concepts Denis is working on are making DirectFB more flexible every day. Eventually we should have a windowing environment that fits the assumptions made by Gdk and other approaches that I'm personally more interested in. Back on the Gtk side I think its time to consider a Gtk 3 series that is designed around a small core that can be implemented on top of a minimal rootless windowing environment with the code repackaged as plugins. I doubt that this will happen instead Gtk seems to be suffering the same complexity creep that all the other application frameworks suffer from. At the end of the day these large frameworks lose most of the benefits provided by open source and your reduced to the ability to at best fix a few superficial bugs. So I'm sorry if Gtk/DirectFB does net meet your needs but I'm done with massive inflexible frameworks I believe that are not the right way to build things if you really believe in open source. They have brought in a horrible design concept from the closed source world. Flame off :) On Dec 5, 2007 7:37 AM, Denis Oliver Kropp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Johnson wrote: > > Unless I am grossly mistaken, any other behavior will create a serious > > incompatibility between GTK+ backends. I am currently struggling with > > code that isn't getting events it expects (DirectFB 1.0.0 and GTK+ > > 2.10.13). Sounds like maybe Mike's explanation might cover my problems > > and incompatibilities with GTK/X. > > If you're not interested in raw X11 events, but only GdkEvents, your code > should work with GDKDirectFB, otherwise it's a bug and needs to be fixed. > > > -- > Best regards, > Denis Oliver Kropp > > .------------------------------------------. > | DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics | > | http://www.directfb.org/ | > "------------------------------------------" > _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
