[Fwd: Re: [Dillo-dev]GTK 1.2 ..?]
oops, forgot to reply to the list :-! -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@tamu.edu> To: Kelson Vibber <kelson@pobox.com> Subject: Re: [Dillo-dev]GTK 1.2 ..? Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 12:16:56 -0600 On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 09:17 -0800, Kelson Vibber wrote:
R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
Is there any reason Dillo is still building against the GTK+ 1.2 libraries as opposed to 2.0 ?
People have done tests, and Dillo becomes much slower and much larger under GTK2.
The current plan (unless it's been changed off-list) is to move to FLTK instead, which should pick up things like Unicode support and a more current code base.
That's fine, but where (if any) is the code in CVS, i've worked with FLTK before, but only from a C++ perspective...is Dillo staying in C? By the way, jcid@, I heard you were at FOSDEM, and were staying with Mind.be, which one were you again, I was staying there with the MirOS/MirBSD hackers, I stayed up all night working on ports, so I probably saw you downstairs sometime hacking away (or listening to those comical Plan9 fellows talk ;)) Have you given thought to wxWidgets, or anything other graphics libs? (FLTK was kinda ugly the last time I used it, then again, GTK+ 1.2 isn't much pretty either) -R. Tyler Ballance
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 12:20:33PM -0600, R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
[...] By the way, jcid@, I heard you were at FOSDEM, and were staying with Mind.be, which one were you again, I was staying there with the MirOS/MirBSD hackers, I stayed up all night working on ports, so I probably saw you downstairs sometime hacking away (or listening to those comical Plan9 fellows talk ;))
There were two guys with long black hair. One was the Plan9 speechman, the other was me. ...and, we spend more than an hour talking to each other that night. ;) BTW, there was a guy in the room, playin funny music on his notebook. Was it you? :-) -- Cheers Jorge.-
By the way, jcid@, I heard you were at FOSDEM, and were staying with Mind.be, which one were you again, I was staying there with the MirOS/MirBSD hackers, I stayed up all night working on ports, so I probably saw you downstairs sometime hacking away (or listening to those comical Plan9 fellows talk ;))
There were two guys with long black hair. One was the Plan9 speechman, the other was me. ...and, we spend more than an hour talking to each other that night. ;)
BTW, there was a guy in the room, playin funny music on his notebook. Was it you? :-)
Now I know who you were, heh, I was that blond young fellow, not the german guy, I am/was the American. I had a shitty old IBM Thinkpad with a big BSD sticker on the back, I came down later, after all the MirOS(/BSD) fellows had gone to sleep. That Plan9 fellow was awfully opinionated wasn't he? :-P He discarded the FreeBSD Project as anything worth a damn on the grounds that "how can a OS be respected that doesn't even have their own compiler?" Oh well, it was fun, I'm almost certain that i'll be coming to FOSDEM next year, you should coax Mind.be into flying you over again (hopefully the FLTK port is completely usable by then ;)) Btw, are you going to do anything GNU/specific with the FLTK port, or will there be the possibility of porting Dillo/FLTK to Windows (blech! but still, OSS on Windows is useful :)) -R. Tyler Ballance
On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 05:06:52PM -0000, Ballance, Robert T wrote:
By the way, jcid@, I heard you were at FOSDEM, and were staying with Mind.be, which one were you again, I was staying there with the MirOS/MirBSD hackers, I stayed up all night working on ports, so I probably saw you downstairs sometime hacking away (or listening to those comical Plan9 fellows talk ;))
There were two guys with long black hair. One was the Plan9 speechman, the other was me. ...and, we spend more than an hour talking to each other that night. ;)
BTW, there was a guy in the room, playin funny music on his notebook. Was it you? :-)
Now I know who you were, heh, I was that blond young fellow, not the german guy, I am/was the American. I had a shitty old IBM Thinkpad with a big BSD sticker on the back, I came down later, after all the MirOS(/BSD) fellows had gone to sleep.
I seem to remember that laptop... Probably mine is older.
That Plan9 fellow was awfully opinionated wasn't he? :-P
Yes, but he also had a lot of knowledge, and he was willing to share and discuss it (a thing that's not very common), so I really enjoyed the talk.
He discarded the FreeBSD Project as anything worth a damn on the grounds that "how can a OS be respected that doesn't even have their own compiler?"
Maybe it was an indirect pointer to Ken Thompson's reflections on trusting trust.
Btw, are you going to do anything GNU/specific with the FLTK port, or will there be the possibility of porting Dillo/FLTK to Windows (blech! but still, OSS on Windows is useful :))
AFAIK, there're still some Windows limitations as, for instance, not being possible to watch a pipe's activity with select(). We'll see... -- Cheers Jorge.-
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