[Sugar-devel] de-hippo'd CanvasIcon: windowed or not?

[Marco Pesenti Gritti]

On 15 September 2011 21:45, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco at marcopg.org> wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> isn't the problem going away with GTK 3.0? From the release notes
>>
>> "GDK has been rewritten to use ‘client-side windows’. This means that
>> GDK maintains its own window hierarchy and only uses X windows where
>> it is necessary or explicitly requested. "
>>
>> Of course it would be nice to decouple de-hippo from the gtk 3 port,
>> but I'm not sure there is a good solution for this with gtk 2.
>
> The hippo support is disappearing faster than perhaps we'll be ready
> to complete the GTK 3 migration so we may have no choice...

Why is that the case? I mean it seems like there shouldn't be an issue
to keep depending on hippo with gtk2 and without introspection...

Marco