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

[Peter Robinson]

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:49 PM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco at marcopg.org> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>
> Maybe I am mistaken, but I thought hippo was dropped from F15 and had
> to be backported.

No, the maintainer orphaned the package so it was going to be dropped
for F-16 but I picked it up and will limp it along until we're ready
to retire it.

Peter