Re: Port to GTK+ and GNOME

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>]

Hi Mo,

It is nice to have the Styling support on 8..  I agree that that is the way to 
handle these style differences, not the way it was done before.

But I could find no reference to any effort of updating the widgets to use the 
styling support.

If there was at least one implementation (the widgets to the Tk default style, 
for instance), it would be a question of witting a style engine (a sizable task 
per se) for GNOME (or KDE or whatever). But the way it stands one would have 
first to convert the existing widgets.  And I could find no effort in progress, 
so it means start from scratch.

Do you guys know of someone who may already be looking into this widget conversion?

Fernando

Mo DeJong wrote:> On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 15:27:53 -0500
> Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Dear Insight developers and friends,
>>
>>With the increasing acceptance of GTK+ and GNOME in many *ix systems, 
>>Insight may have to follow the pack and become more consistent with the 
>>GNOME look-and-feel and somehow migrate to use GTK+ in some form.
>>
>>There are currently 3 different possible approaches:
>>
>>1) Use gnocl (loosely modeled after TK)
>>2) Use tcl-gtk (just wraps GTK, or any other GObject based library)
>>3) add a GTK+ port to TK itself
> 
> 
> If you are really interested in option #3, you might want to take a look
> at Tcl tip 48. The code to implement this tip was accepted into Tk 8.4,
> so if you are considering option #3 you might want to take a look at it.
> 
> http://www.tcl.tk/cgi-bin/tct/tip/48.html
> 
> Mo
> 



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