Re: about including gpaint

[Sri Ramkrishna <sri banu aracnet com>]

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 02:34:21PM -0800, Seth Nickell wrote:
> This then is an incredibly narrow perspective. Depending on an
> application's purposes, GTK+ may well be the only relevant GNOME
> library. In this case it would still clearly be a GNOME application. IMO

I disagree.  I'm really hesitant in going further than this because I feel
it's only going to perpetuate a flame war that I think is going to be 
pointless.

Basically, the foundation or someone is going to have to give application
developers a guideline that tells them what a qualified GNOME app is.

My personal opinion is that GTK+ library is not all that is required to
be a GNOME app.

> the widget set is the most important thing for most applications to mesh
> well with the rest of GNOME. A well designed GTK+ application will
> arguably, be a better fit and more consistent on a GNOME desktop than a
> un-gnome-looking but using gnome libraries application like DIA.

There are style guides that people are supposed to follow.  If a GNOME app
is breaking style guides then someone needs to convince the author that
they should follow the style guide.  One of the goals of the GNOME project 
is to project applications with similiar consistency.  Thats what the 
gnome libraries were supposed to accomplish.

> Other reasons for excluding GTK+ only applications seem to be political
> and arbitrary discrimination.

That well may be.  But we're trying to promote GNOME not GTK, remember?
If you want to expand the scope bring it up with the foundation.

	sri