[Sugar-devel] Question on GTK3 and HippoCanvas

[James Simmons]

I just got the comment below from Aneesh Dogra.  He has been working on the
GTK2->GTK3 task for Google code-in and one of the examples in the book is a
simplified version of the Chat Activity which uses Hippo Canvas.  It is the
*only *example in the book that does, and it only does that because I just
stripped down the existing Chat Activity to create it.  I was writing a
chapter on how to make Activities collaborate and I needed a simplified
Chat to do that.

I understand that we don't want to use Hippo Canvas any more, but I think
rewriting the whole UI for Chat is more than I expected Aneesh to do for
this particular task.  Actually, if you were going to do that it would make
sense to do it in the GTK2 version so neither one had any Hippo in it.  I
would suggest that doing this could be a task itself, and the person doing
it would have the option of writing a new guest chapter with tips on
replacing Hippo Canvas with regular GTK components.

I'm interested in everyone's thoughts on this.

James Simmons


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Date: Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 1:52 PM
Subject: [Google Code-in 2012] New comment on Make your own Sugar activity:
GTK3 examples
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 Hi,

 Aneesh Dogra has left the following comment at Make your own Sugar
activity: GTK3 examples
http://www.google-melange.com/gci/task/view/google/gci2012/8015209:

*Deadline extension Request*

Hello James,



I am midway in porting the Mini Chat to gtk3, Its taking a lot of time
because I basically have to remake the application's whole UI (because it
uses hippo) and we don't support hippo anymore.



I am trying my level best and would like some more time for it. (Atleast 24
hours more)



Thanks

Aneesh

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