[Sugar-devel] Goocanvas as alternative to Hippo?

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 05:40:42PM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 17:01, Jonas Smedegaard<dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:21:48AM +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>Well, if we could replace hippo completely with something maintained 
>>>by someone else, would be great. But just reducing its usage and 
>>>implementing some AT-SPI hooks might be enough for now.
>>>
>>>Of course, that would help as well with accessibility.
>>
>> I have absolutely no understanding of what hippo does, except from 
>> its package description in Debian, but is this perhaps a worthy 
>> alternative: http://live.gnome.org/GooCanvas
>>
>> It has Python binding. :-)
>>
>> Here's a sceptical blog entry about it: 
>> http://www.murrayc.com/blog/permalink/2007/10/11/goocanvas-experiences/
>
>Sugar used goocanvas before I started hacking on it. I'm not sure
>which was the rationale behind the switch to hippo.
>
>If we had IRC logs, we could investigate ;)

I don't know any of them, so do not promote Goocanvas as better than 
Hippo.


All I basically did was run the following command on Debian:

     ept-cache related libhippocanvas-1-0


(I did a bit more, like googling a bit, but above was my power tool)



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