On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 05:57 +0300, Hussam Al-Tayeb wrote: > Throughout the last two gnome releases, I have noticed that less > applications use gnomeprintui and more use gtkprint. There is also the > gnome-vfs to gvfs/gio migration. I also noticed that less application > use libgnomeui. > I have a few questions. > > Are there plans to move the rest of the applications such as gnome-games > and gnome-utils from gnomeprintui to gtkprint? > > What about gnomecanvas? Can applications be ported to directly use cairo > instead? Is that possible? Does this require changes to gtk+ can this be > application specific? The general push is to kill off libgnome, libgnoeui, libgnomecanvas, libgnomeprint, and libgnomeprintui. It's not an instant process. See: http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley As for the canvas, there have been a lot of recent discussions about how best to implement a new canvas inside GTK+. See, for example, Havoc's post: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-March/msg00017.html -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
