William> Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu writes: :) William> There will be a lot of work to get the GTK stuff to work with GTK 2.x. The William> lisp bindings will need to change pretty drastically because of the new William> glib stuff, and a big redesign of the object system. there are a whole bunch of docs and api specs on http://developer.gnome.org/ i am currently running gnome2 so i will be available for a guinea pig :) William> -bp William> -- William> Ceterum censeo vi esse delendam -- XEmacs Advocate | Do not try the patience of Wizards, FreeBSD Devote | for they are subtle and quick to anger. Perl Hacker | - Elric (Technomage) , Babylon 5. Apache God | <mailto:rendhalver at xemacs.org> <GnuPG KeyID: AE51D190>

William> rendhalver(a)xemacs.org (Rendhalver [Peter Brown]) writes: >> >> William> Valdis.Kletnieks(a)vt.edu writes: William> There will be a lot of work to get the GTK stuff to work William> with GTK 2.x. The lisp bindings will need to change pretty William> drastically because of the new glib stuff, and a big William> redesign of the object system. William> Heh - I didn't say _I_ have the time to do it. :) I've been travelling all William> summer, and am just now getting back into the swing of things. The new William> glib and reworked object system should really make things easier for the William> lisp bindings, but I'm not sure if that is the right way to go or just William> break down and do the widget stuff in raw C. The lisp bindings are cool, yeah tricky decision i guess any ideas wether rep-gtk could be used ?? William> but unless Gtk gets so #%!＠#!ing spiffy that we drop support for other William> window systems (not likely), I don't see a lot of people adopting gtk lisp William> programs for core XEmacs functionality. i cant see other widget sets being droped either William> Is anybody actually -running- gtk2 for useful things? I've found that 99% William> of the apps out there are still strictly gtk1. i have all of gnome 2 that is in the FreeBSD ports tree they are pretty much all gtk 2 i believe i only have one gtk 1.2 app still installed and thats cause i havent checked to see if xmms is being ported to gtk2 -- XEmacs Advocate | Do not try the patience of Wizards, FreeBSD Devote | for they are subtle and quick to anger. Perl Hacker | - Elric (Technomage) , Babylon 5. Apache God | <mailto:rendhalver at xemacs.org> <GnuPG KeyID: AE51D190>