[Gtk-sharp-list] Improving Gtk#

Todd Berman tberman@off.net
Sat, 30 Apr 2005 11:44:12 -0700


On Sat, 2005-04-30 at 01:19 -0400, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > The gtk-dotnet.dll stuff doesnt work on win32, and cairo is really just
> > to slow to be usable on linux. Gdk may or may not be the best API
> > possible, but it is blazingly fast, and as portable as your app. We have
> > moved away from the gtk-dotnet stuff and towards 100% Gdk for that very
> > reason.
> > 
> > I have a patch to make the gtk-dotnet stuff work w/ GdkWindows on win32,
> > but I cant get it to work properly with GdkPixmaps.
> 
> I checked in a fix on SVN from a contributor, could you verify if this
> works for you?
> 

In fact it does :)

I still think using Gdk for the current time being is better/easier, but
as far as allowing reusability, this is a great step in the right
direction.

--Todd