[Sugar-devel] Question on GTK3 and HippoCanvas

[Gonzalo Odiard]

Hi James,
Replacing hippo in Chat was not trivial, but is already done.
You (or Aneesh) can see the code used right now in the activity.

If you need a simple activity to show how collaborate,
I think is better use simple gtk controls, labels or entries.

As your book is our best reference for developers,
should be great if you add a note about not using hippo,
and ideal if no examples use hippo.

Please, tell us if you plan do a new release of the book,
to update the Spanish translation.

Gonzalo



On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 5:37 PM, James Simmons <nicestep at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> To: nicestep at gmail.com
>
>
>  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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