I started a page describing some of the high level tradeoffs between the two. Please add items or elaborate.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/GtkVsViewsGtk On Fri, 13 Mar 2009, Ben Goodger (Google) wrote: > > Scott Violet, Elliot, Evan Martin, Adam Langley, Tony, Linus and I met > briefly earlier today to discuss Linux UI and Gtk. > > What we agreed is that next week Elliot and I will spend some time > researching what it would take to use views with Gtk, including the > Widget/Window types and NativeControl. The plan is to use native Gtk > widgets for the outer container and for all locations where a > NativeControl is used on Windows, so the applicable system integration > for things like IME in text fields should "just work." In this > capacity, views is used as a layout engine and an event > receiver/propagation system for views that aren't GtkWidgets, as it is > on Windows for widgets that aren't HWNDs/Common Controls. As usual, > Skia is providing the rendering. > > Since we're just researching right now, don't let this delay any UI > work that's already under way. We'll report back to this group at the > end of next week with our findings. > > -Ben > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Developers mailing list: chromium-dev@googlegroups.com View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
