[Sugar-devel] Shell-port GTK+ 2 ---> GTK+ 3

[Simon Schampijer]

On 06/23/2012 08:21 PM, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> here a few more informations to the approach I am taken. Daniel Narvaez
> asked me yesterday about it, so there might have been some questions
> floating around already :)
>
> The first part of the work is getting the shell hippo free and using GTK
> widgets instead. The views have to be ported to GTKContainers and in the
> toolkit we have to replace the CanvasIcon with an EventBox (for
> receiving the events) that contains an IconBuffer to draw the icon
> itself. We renamed that widget to EventIcon in the process. The API
> stays the same, just for more clarity size has been renamed to pixel_size.
>
> I have pushed the current state of the shell port to a temporary repo
> [1] and this toolkit-gtk2 patch to a temporary repo [2] as well. So the
> toolkit-gtk2 part will never really land but it is good to have it
> around for making the shell port.
>
> Once this no-hippo work is done we can run the autoconverter script
> (GTK2-GTK3) and then do the cleanup for GTK+ 3. Same way as we did for
> the toolkit port.
>
> The two branches are both tracked in sugar-build as well [3].
>
> Regards,
>     Simon
>
> [1] http://git.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/sugar/erikos-shell-port
> [2] http://git.sugarlabs.org/~erikos/sugar-toolkit/erikos-shell-port
> [3] http://git.sugarlabs.org/~dnarvaez/sugar-build/shell-port

More writeup on the decisions taken:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/GTK3/Shell/Hippo_Removal

That should help when reading the new code.

Regards,
    Simon