From: Sebastian G. <sge...@st...> - 2002-05-29 14:51:06
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On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:27:59AM -0300, Livio Baldini Soares wrote: > Hello Lawrence! > > Law...@ds... writes: > > If Dillo needs GTK+-1.2, are there any plans to make a GTK+-2.0 version? If > > so, any idea when it might become available? > > There have been a few individual tries to port Dillo do GTK+-2.0, as > as far as I know, none of which have succeed completely. I think the > main Dillo developers are not currently very motivated to do this > port, at least while GTK+-2.0 isn't available on most mainstream > stable distributions. I haven't taken any look on Gtk+ 2 until now, mostly due to the lack of time. I read the porting guidelines (somewhere at gtk.org), and what I remember is that porting should be simple, problems may only arise in the usage of GtkObject (which is now GObject, and a part of glib), and text rendering (which is now done by Pango). Well, That's both what the Dw module heavily depends on! Availibility on distributions is indeed a problem, since this affects how easily dillo can be installed. Perhaps others may give information on when Gtk+ 2 may be available. (There is also the possibility of keeping dillo for a while runnable with both versions, using ugly #ifdef's, double test runs, new options for the configure script etc. -- but I think the port should be done once, without transitional time.) Sebastian |