I had a discussion about Views with Scott. I think I am on the side of the fence that porting views it not a good idea. One of the things that came up is remote X, would it be possible to ever have good remote X performance with the Views panting model? I wouldn't want to paint ourselves into a corner (dum dum dum).
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:43 AM, <t...@chromium.org> wrote: > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
