Up North

Got back on Sunday from a great Guadec in a rainy Birmingham. I felt that there was a lot more energy around this year than last year with a lot of discussions on how to improve our platform. (Thanks Apple for the timely released phone )

One thing that a lot of people were talking about was the need for bling in GTK+. At this stage it’s mostly generic ideas that we need to improve in that area and I definitely agree. And we really need to get hackers and UI designers together to discuss what kind of features and bling that we are missing.

One misconception that we see a lot is that people seems to think that just because the stock widgets are all pretty static and square it means that any application that uses GTK+ will be. One of GTK+’s strengths is that it is very versatile and customizable (especially compared to a lot of other toolkits out there).

As a quick proof of concept I used Carlos GtkTimeline (#444659) to create a simple slide animation for switching between to widgets in a similar way that the iphone slides in pages from the side.

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