Re: AWT hacks (Was: [cp-patches] FYI: Only prepare GtkImages in GtkToolkit)

[Thomas Fitzsimmons]

Hi,

On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 18:09 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:

> I think targeting a new gtk+ and a cairo 1.0 release is easier then
> adding BufferedImage support to GdkImage. But looking at the RoadMap and
> TODO of cairo it looks like cairo 1.0 is still a long way off:
> http://cvs.cairographics.org/cairo/ROADMAP?rev=HEAD
> http://cvs.cairographics.org/cairo/TODO?rev=HEAD
> 

Yes, my plan is to wait until the Cairo APIs have settled.  Then we can
make this transition.

> On the other hand Owen Tayler has been doing reviews of java-gnome and
> the cairo bindings this last week:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2005-April/003783.html
> http://java-gnome.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/bin/view/Main/JGDiscussionMemoryManagement
> So it might make sense to take this oppertunity to lay down a plan for
> the future needs of our gtk/cairo awt peers and ask him for input on it.
> 

That's a good idea.  It looks like I'll be able to devote more time to
AWT and Swing hacking soon, so I'll revisit this.

Thanks for the overview,
Tom