Re: GNOME CVS: gtk+ matthiasc

[John Ehresman <jpe wingware com>]

Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > 1. Make GTK+ depend on GConf
> >   PROS: Makes this (and a lot of other similar problems) very easy
> >   CONS: Doesn't work with OSX/Windows; likely to be very controversial
>
>
> AFAIK, GConf pretty much works on win32; but it's the dependencies that
> it brings along that are very controversial.  Making GTK depend on ORBit
> and libxml2 would also be a killer for embedded environments.

I wouldn't want to see GConf become a requirement for gtk on win32 or on
other platforms for that matter.  For this specific need, maybe all that
is needed is a way to register a global default function to open a url 
with the default implementation on win32 using the win32 api (which I 
think is a single call) and on linux/unix to use GConf if it is available.

John