Michal wrote:
I understand that my proposal won't be popular but switching from FLTK2 is necessary - we hardly have FLTK2 in distributions (read: no Dillo-2 in distribution) and that's shortening our user base.
How hard it would be to rewrite/port Dillo-2 to FLTK-1.3?
(I see that the speed of v1.3 development is nothing exciting, but from what I read months ago they at least plan to have a release ever.)
While looking at the devel cycle of Dillo - two releases per year - I believe this porting should be mid-term goal. Unless we wanna spend another year out of mainstream distributions. (And frankly: even with Dillo-2 based on FLTK-1.3 we are quite far from Dillo-2 in distribution...)
It seems to be the consensus that going to 1.3 will happen eventually. They still have some work on UTF-8 to do first: http://svn.easysw.com/public/fltk/fltk/branches/branch-1.3/TODO.utf8 Out of curiosity, I once made a dillo that compiled with 1.3. It failed to work at all because I don't know the fltk and dw code well enough in general, but I was satisfied with getting an idea of how much there was to it. - We would have to get Johannes to do dw/fltkview*. - Fonts are a bit different. I didn't dig into that. - Menus are a bit different. Didn't dig into that either. - The PackedGroup for the UI behaved differently. I fought with it for a little while, then grew impatient. The rest was mostly changing a whole lot of fltk::something to Fl_something.