Re: grdb into gnome-1.4 (or at least gnome CVS) ?

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

shunter@bigsky.net writes:

> Hello all.
> 
> I'd like to open the subject of getting grdb into gnome 1.4.
> 
> For those who don't know, grdb maps gtk theme colors and fonts to
> Xt/motif/tk programs. Its meager home-page is at:
> http://bucket.pp.ualr.edu/~bit/grdb.html
> 

This plan sounds great. Let's have a discussion period before we add
it. I think Joe's suggestion of incorporating grdb into gnome-core and
the capplet changes into control-center is eminently reasonable, but
we could also make it a seprate package.

> Finally, is gnome-1.4 binary compatible with gnome-1.2? I have
> a patch to gnome-font-picker that lets the programmer set a filter
> that is passed thru to the gtk font dialog. It uses gtk_widget_set_data()
> so its binary compatible (I think, been using it for awhile here). But
> if 1.4 breaks compatibility, this might as well be a pointer in
> the widget. I'll post the patch to gnome-devel and whomever looks like
> libgnomeui's maintainer after I clean it up.

GNOME 1.4 will be 100% source and binary comptible with 1.2.

 - Maciej