Re: [glob2-devel] feedback on Globulation 2 (long, with many topics)

[Stéphane Magnenat]

> There is support for this in either Qt or some additional toolkit that
> KDE has built on top of it.  A nice example is the Gwenview image
> viewer, which allows you to rearrange its panes fairly arbitrarily.
> You can make any pane an independent window if you want, or you can
> dock them in the main window in arbitrary tiled arrangements.  You can
> stack several panes in the same location in which case they
> automatically get tabs to switch between them.  Apparently Gwenview
> merely uses some toolkit features to implement the vast majority of
> this.
>
> I think GTK+ used to have some support for at least some of this kind
> of thing, but I think that support was either removed or deprecated
> (and hence may be becoming buggy) due to the GNOME project's emphasis
> on good defaults and simplicity over configurability.
>
> So if one were to switch to either Qt or GTK+, this might be an
> argument in favor of Qt.

There is a Qt 4 port in the cvs but it's far from being anywhere usable, only 
an embrio. The idea was to switch to a client\server model with a light 
client doing only gui:
http://cvs.savannah.nongnu.org/viewcvs/glob2/quatuor/

Steph

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