LWN: Comments on "Merging GTK+ and Clutter" https://lwn.net/Articles/608501/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "Merging GTK+ and Clutter". en-us Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:29:05 +0000 Fri, 03 Oct 2025 06:29:05 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net Merging GTK+ and Clutter https://lwn.net/Articles/608939/ https://lwn.net/Articles/608939/ n8willis <div class="FormattedComment"> Oh, I don't think it came across as anything other than a comment that the naming motif was harmless fun that made sense in the earlier context but wouldn't add anything in the new context.<br> <p> Thanks for mentioning the signals issue as well; I have some of that here and there in my notes, but not in sufficient detail....<br> <p> Nate<br> </div> Tue, 19 Aug 2014 19:10:09 +0000 Merging GTK+ and Clutter https://lwn.net/Articles/608652/ https://lwn.net/Articles/608652/ ebassi <p>thanks for the article.</p> <p>I just have a couple of notes on it.</p> <blockquote><p>"an inside joke that was nice enough, but stupid."</p></blockquote> <p>I don't think I used this exact sentence, and if I did then I feel the need to apologise for that. what I meant (and I think I said, but I always end up riffing on my notes during a talk) is that the "actors" inside joke worked while we had stages, actors, behaviours, and actions, but since we don't have them any more, it'd be pretty stupid to reuse that terminology.</p> <p>my point about the "draw" virtual function is that it's not also a signal, unlike currently with ClutterActor's "paint" signal and GtkWidget's "draw" one.</p> Thu, 14 Aug 2014 16:08:21 +0000