Re: gnome desktop integration library

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Chipzz wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Havoc Pennington wrote:
>
>   
> > Why can't gtk depend on dbus? How do those reasons not apply to libgnome?
> >
> > I don't know, I'm asking. But there's no reason to just make an
> > assumption up front that gtk can't depend on dbus, or that gnome should.
> >     
>
> Because gtk+ is not just gnome. Gtk+ is also maemo. Gtk+ is also xfce.
> Gtk+ is also a possible choice for embedded apps on phones, pdas, and
> stuff like that. Gtk+ is also a library for very simple apps, where
> very tight desktop integration does not make sense.
>
> As much as I think a gconf dependency would be a good thing for gtk+, gtk+
> is a widget library, not a library for tight integration.

But that's not a reason why _Gtk+ on Linux_ cannot have a DBus 
dependency, appropriately abstracted behind a "platform settings 
storage" API. Gtk+ on Windows can have a dependency on RegEdit, and Gtk+ 
on embedded systems can interact with whatever platform-native mechanism 
exists there.

[ We're probably talking about Glib, really, here, aren't we? ]

--
Andrew