On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:21:18AM -0500, Benjamin Johnson wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 09:32:09 -0500, Jorge Arellano Cid <jcid@dillo.org> wrote:
Point taken.
I'll get in contact with them.
The background is: they've changed plans several times. We got in very close contact before going with F2, and they said it was to be released real soon (as now with F1.3 and F3). Five years later F2 is dead and we're out of distros.
At some point they reached consensus and decided to push F1.3 forward, and it's being moving at good pace. Hopefully with a release in this quarter.
I agree that having F3 with F2's API would be the best. The doubt is when will this happen if ever.
Although I'm just a bystander concerning Dillo (my favorite all time browser), I agree. The way they're wording is published on the FLTK website concerning F3, it won't ever likely happen (unless things really take off with F1.3.)
At this point I'm half-tempted to throw together an API wrapper myself, just so we can have something and save ourselves the trouble of rewriting Dillo (again).
Ditto. I've tinkering around just trying to compile Dillo against fltk-1.3 here on Gentoo for kicks. Got a running bug here with not being able to enter keyboard text within fields after switching virtual desktop in DWM (aka tags).
As an aside, I wish just one of the major toolkits would get its act together; we all know about GTK+, and I'm still using Qt 3 because 4.x is such a mess. It's sad when coding directly against native APIs -- Win32, Cocoa, pure Xlib -- is almost the more attractive option.
Ditto. FLTK has a great idea, but seems to be low on man power. Qt just makes me ill to be stomach -- to Qt for me. Don't care about flowers, just gimme something to clickity-click on! -- Roger http://rogerx.freeshell.org/