Embedding GTK+ widgets inside a Clutter scene

Alex Larsson of Nautilus and GIO fame, and hacker extraordinaire has really outdone himself, this time.

Alex has been working for a while on the client-side window branch of GTK+, and apart from smooth and flicker-less resizing, simplified backends and transparency support even without the XComposite extension on every supported platform, this branch also allows embedding GTK+ widgets inside other toolkits — toolkits like Clutter.

so, here's a screencap from Alex showing what it's going to be possible in the near future:

Clutter Gtk integration from Alexander Larsson on Vimeo.

very exciting times ahead!