Re: gnome desktop integration library

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 9/7/06, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:

> The don't have time argument leads to a libno-time-to-port-to-windows
> which kind of sucks as a way to organize the platform. Didn't GTK used
> to have a policy that stuff went in for X and the Windows team had to
> keep up? It was a little harsh, but given the fact that nobody else knew
> how to code the Windows bits, maybe the only feasible approach.

Pretty much, yes. Of course, you have to come up with an API that
_can_ be implemented on those other platforms in the first place, which
may not always be that straightforward; and may require you to at least
prototype a win32 implementation. Case in point, the printing framework.

Matthias