Re: gtk3/clutter UI

On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 00:09 +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> On Sun, February 10, 2013 7:19 pm, Jan Depner wrote:
> > On Sun, 2013-02-10 at 15:23 +1100, Patrick Shirkey wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I ran a few tests of the various options for getting clutter and gtk3
> >> into
> >> the gtk2 UI and the results were not very good. So I spent some time now
> >> (about 8 hours so far) migrating the existing code to gtk3 and adding a
> >> basic clutter stage.
> >>
> >> After a few hours of pain I have managed to get the interface to build
> >> and
> >> run. Although I had to disable the hdeq, compressor graphs and meters as
> >> well as make a few guesses about the layout of the grid columns which is
> >> going to be a bit of a hassle to rebuild :-(
> >>
> >> The good news is that it had to be done at some point if we want to keep
> >> moving forward so it seems there is no time like the present.
> >>
> >> The question now is should I spin up a new tree for this version or is
> >> it
> >> ok to go ahead and update the code to the existing repo. Given that we
> >> haven't been doing very much to jamin for the past few years I'm not
> >> fussed if the old gui is completely replaced by a new shiny gtk3/clutter
> >> version.
> >>
> >> However this might be a good opportunity to move to svn too.
> >>
> >> FYI, the benefits of clutter are opengl support, touch interface
> >> support,
> >> UI animation support and that it frees us from the gtk h/vbox lock in by
> >> allowing us to place any size or shape widgets at any location on the
> >> x/y/z axis.
> >>
> >> I have already been doing some work with it for the CMKeyboard project
> >> in
> >> python. It's very powerful and a lot of fun too if you like UI dev :-)
> >>
> >>
> >
> >     If you're going to go through all that agony why not just rewrite it
> > using Qt?  Qt 4.8 is fine, I'm not so sure about 5.0.  In either case
> > the documentation is about 100 times better than anything GTK.  I've
> > personally ported about 30 applications from C/Motif/GTK/ANYGUI to C
> > ++/Qt with no major problems.  And Qt is now under LGPL!
> >
> 
> 
> QT is under the control of Microsoft and I just don't trust that company :-)


    Qt is not under Microsoft's control.  It is now being developed by
Digia but, since it is LGPL, it is not under anyone's control.  It can
be forked anytime anyone wants to fork it.


> 
> Plus I have a long term commitment to GTK and now Clutter too.  Clutter
> development is partially funded by Intel and it is used for the new
> Wayland desktop which is being rolled out to every distro over the coming
> year.
> 
> It's 8 hours work so far. After it is done JAMin will once again be a
> thoroughly modern interface showcasing the state of the art for
> GTK3/Clutter and Linux Audio Apps.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Patrick Shirkey
> Boost Hardware Ltd
> 
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