[CF-Devel] New project

[Scott MacFiggen]

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      Yes, GTK is the toolkit used by Gnome, but that's not why I did it, sure,
     
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      the GTK client looks good in Gnome but it doesn't take advantage of Gnome's
     
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      features.  As for examples, here goes:
     
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      Ok.  Some of it was just curiousity of what specifically had to be done 
     
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      to make it work under gnome properly
     
     
GTK is only used as a base for gnome. Gnome actually has its own set of
widgets all built on top of gtk with lots of nifty features, like tear
away menu bars and stuff. GTK native code works fine on Gnome, just doesn't
take advantage of gnome. Gnome also has an opengl canvas which could be
used for some interesting effects maybe.


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      As a note - imlib was originally used for the client for png support.  But it
     
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     was so buggy/slow I gave it up.  Basically, it would not render some PNG files
     
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     correctly (some of them important, like the cobblestones).  Maybe they've
     
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     finally fixed that up.
     
     

I believe gnome is dropping imlib too.. Or maybe that was just enlightenment.
I've heard nothing good about imlib in general though.

 -Scott