[CF-Devel] RE: GTK editor

[Tim Rightnour]

On 26-Oct-01 Yann Chachkoff wrote:
>>
     
     Why are you developing a GTK editor?
     
     >
     
      Because quite some people asked for one.
     
     
Yay yay yay..  ::dance dance::

So.. actually.. that would pretty much solve my problem with removing the Xt
editor.  All I want is an editor that is truly free.

Now..  Amusingly.. as one of the original advocates of switching to a single
client..  I can see myself swaying back the other way.  I tried the SDL client
some last night..  and while it is an impressive body of work, there are a few
issues with it, some of which I assume are because it's still in beta:

1) It was pretty slow.  My whole system seemed to bog down when I ran it, and
my onscreen cursor suddenly took on a luggish feeling, even when out of the
window.  I have a 1.4GHZ Athlon with 512MB of DDR ram.

2) The onscreen icons really had me confused.  I couldn't figure out where my
inventory was, or any details about them.  I tried clicking on monsters
onscreen to find out what they were, but never got any data back.  I found
myself looking around for the side windows and whatnot that the gtk client
have, showing inventory, and whats on the ground.  Perhaps I just didn't see
something obvious.  I saw alot of space in the client used by pretty
backgrounds and displays, but less actual information shown to the user.  I plan
to fiddle more.

3) In order to install the gtk client.. there are alot of sub-packages one
needs to install.  SDL is quite a beast though.  Lets compare:

GTK:            SDL:
gettext         SDL_image
glib            Mesa
gtk             SDL
perl            esound
png             glu
pth             glut
xpm             jpeg
                libaudiofile
                png
                pth
                gettext
                glib
                gtk
                libogg
                smpeg

I can deal with #3, as, I guess if you want the features these days, you pay
the bloat.  #2 can be fixed, or at least documented.   #1 looks like it's going
to be the interesting problem to solve.

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