Re: [Openev-discuss] porting to gtk2

[Yao H. <yao...@ya...>]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 05:32:35PM -0400, Frank
Warmerdam wrote:
>  o GTK 1.x is stable and works fine now.  It will
likely "do" for OpenEV for
>    a while.
>  o GTK 2.x is much more attractive and making
progress on many fronts.  For
>    these reasons I would like to move to it at some
point.  But it is a
>    substantial effort.

Fair enough. It's not right to ask you or other core
open devs to do the
porting by yourselves. As it's an open source
projects, and I believe
there are quite a few users out there, many some of
them are interested
in such a port; and a gtk2 port may attract more users
as well. 

My reasoning is that since it's inevitable (porting
openev to gtk2)
sooner or later; if you OKed the porting, contributors
can actually
start working on it. I, for one, though not much a
developer, believe I
can handle python side of the things. So if someone
can port (for
example, gvdata.c) to gtk2 and sort out some the
porting issues such as
removing GtkData (not longer in Gtk2), using GObject
or GtkObject etc.,
others can follow suit. 

On a side note, if there are some things not done
right in the gtk1
version, IMHO, it's time to do some refactoring along
with the porting
process.

>  o I doubt we would use gtkmm (a C++ interface to
GTK2).  OpenEV's core
>    is C currently and I can't see any compelling
reason to change that
>    just now.
> 
Ok. By browsing the source, I've changed my mind on
using gtkmm. It'd be 
too much work to use gtkmm. Not to mention other gui
toolkits. One can 
always wrap gtk to be like gtkmm if there's a need.
For me, using openev
from python would suffice.

> Is GTK 2 well supported on win32?  If not, that will
be a major reason to 
> hold
> off.

No personal experience in this regard. AFAIK, GTK2
support on win32
should at least be the same as, if not better than,
that of GTK1. What's
more, even win32 support is not very good at the
moment, which is very
unlikely, by the time the port is functional, the
wrinkles should be
smoothed out (at least some wrinkles :-); I don't
believe anyone would expect gtk
programs to behave like native win32 programs in the
near future)


Best regards,

Joseph H. Yao



		
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