Re: [MiNT] Software IDE

[Eero Tamminen <oak@helsinkinet.fi>]

Hi,

On tiistai 10 joulukuu 2013, Mark Duckworth wrote:
> On 12/10/2013 03:16 PM, Peter Slegg wrote:
> > There is a Sparemint GTK but that is an old version. (Does this create
> > GEM apps or X11 apps under GEM ?)  GTK and it's dependencies (cairo,
> > pango) probably provide lots of features that we could live without in
> > an IDE so could GTK be replaced with GEM equivalents ? I've no idea I
> > am just asking.
> 
> GTK was dependent on X11 but it would be perfectly reasonable to port
> the gdk backend to GEM and then you would get pretty reasonable
> performance on GTK apps.  I think a similar strategy was used to port
> netsurf.

Before selecting UI toolkit, one should list the applications that
are the reason for selecting it.  And what kind of memory usage
and performance one is expecting from that.

Gtk1 isn't anymore supported anywhere, and Gtk v2 is *much* more heavier
than v1, both in performance and memory usage (drawing is double buffered,
font rendering is antialised, pango provides full internationalization,
themed drawing, input handing etc. are dynamically loaded modules).
There's already Gtk3, so support for Gtk2 is starting to stop.

E.g. FLTK toolkit used by Dillo www-browser might be more suitable
fit for Atari:
	http://www.fltk.org/index.php

Aplication selection for that is much smaller than for popular
toolkit like Gtk (v2) though.


	- Eero