On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 17:22 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
Havoc Pennington wrote some notes about Canvas widgets http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-August/msg00067.html
Not sure if he is aware of Inkscape plans to share canvas widget. Someone interested in this area might want to talk to him or respond to that conversation on the gtk-devel list.
We would need a canvas widget that doesn't suck, first.
If they can implement a decent canvas widget, more power to them. Then we could use it ourselves. Given that our canvas widget keeps getting worse (we don't even have proper tile cacheing anymore, IIRC), I don't think we'd be much help to them.
The part we would want to share would be "SVG canvas" bits, which could be built atop any decent canvas widget (though obviously we'll have to pick a specific one).
-mental