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Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 11:20:30 -0600
From: Matt Gushee <matt at gushee.net>
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Subject: Re: Rendering an image on a canvas?
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Robert Roessler wrote:

> This scarcity is unfortunate, since combining the coolness and fairly 
> wide applicability of OCaml with GTK in all its "baroqueness" (not 
> necessarily to be confused with "brokenness"), LablGTK has the makings 
> of a viable cross-platform GUI toolkit...

Well, in a purely technical sense, I think it already is that. I'm not 
sure I'm really qualified to judge, but I think GTK is pretty 
well-coded. Notice I don't say well-designed ... maybe some day if I 
ever understand its design I will have an opinion on that. But I've been 
following GTK for a long time, and have always felt that its developers 
have a very cavalier attitude to the users of their software. To give 
one example, the old list widget is deprecated in favor of GTree. Why? 
Well, the rationale given in the docs is essentially "because it's 
better." So now a list is a special case of a tree (??!), and we need a 
minimum of 4 objects where 1 was sufficient before.

Okay, sorry to rant. In any case, my issue is with GTK itself, not with 
LablGTK.

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