[Gtk-sharp-list] Improving Gtk#

Paulo Pires paulo.pires@vodafone.pt
Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:32:27 +0100


Hi Miguel

Seg, 2005-04-25 =E0s 23:56 -0400, Miguel de Icaza escreveu:
> Hello,
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>    As people develop applications with Gtk#, I would love to hear
> people's opinion on what we can do to make Gtk# better. =20
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>    I am posting a few ideas that we could discuss:
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>         * TreeView and NodeStore: Useful?  Complex?  What would
>           people like to see there?

	I'm working with TreeView, and I find it simple. It's useful for my
achievements.

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>         * Rendering: Gdk stinks for rendering, do you find convenient
>           the code to use System.Drawing in Gtk-dotnet.dll?  What about
>           Cairo? =20
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>           Are people using either one?
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>         * What third party widgets you are using?

	Gnome.Canvas, which I must say, it's a need. We really need some kind
of canvas! It's missing a Windows port :-/

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>         * What third party widgets from the Gtk+ world you feel are
>           missing for Mono developers?

	Gnome.Canvas

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>         * What things do you find obnoxious, annoying about Gtk#?

	About Gtk#, nothing. About the lack of a good and decent GTK# RAD... a
lot.

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>         * Do you use/need OpenGL?  If you do, how do you do it?

	No.

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>         * What kind of samples are missing?
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>         * What kind of tutorials you would like to see?

	I love Mono - A Developer's Notebook. It's a fast way to learn some
stuff, that should be brought to tutorials when writing.

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> Miguel.

Paulo Pires

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