Re: gnome desktop integration library



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



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