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

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

* Maciej Stachowiak (mjs@eazel.com) wrote at 04:07 on 31/08/00:
> 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.

I think it is a pretty nifty package. 

I think making it have its own capplet is not such a great idea (fitting in
with theme capplet sounds like the best overall solution).
 
> > 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.