Re: Gnome widgets: Do they work well in non-Gnome environments?

[Hans Deragon <hans deragon biz>]

Thanks for the answer.


Could you tell me why then there is a disctinction with GTK, GTK+ and Gnome 
widgets?  Why not put everything in a single library?  Is there a practical 
reason or only historic?


Sincerely,
Hans Deragon
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Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 09:29, Hans Deragon wrote:
>
> > Greetings.
> >
> >
> >   Gnome newbie developer here.  I am using Glade to write my application, and 
> > I notice that there are 3 main categories for widgets:  GTK, GTK+ and Gnome. 
> > My goal is for my application to run smoothly under any environment, including 
> > non-gnome environments like KDE for instance.
> >
> >   Should I limit myself to GTK and GTK+ widgets only?  For most people using 
> > KDE, do applications using Gnome widgets run well?  Can I use Gnome widgets 
> > safely without the risk of locking my application out of many desktops?  I 
> > assume that the answer is yes, but I would like a confirmation and some 
> > warning of some pitfalls, if there are any.
>
>
> Widgets have nothing to do with the desktop you're running, so they'll
> work fine.  GNOME widgets just require that you have the GNOME libraries
> installed, is all.  KDE users might object to having to install those,
> but then that's their own problem.  ;-)  Most Linux distros generally
> come with both the KDE and GNOME libraries anyhow.
>
>
> > Sincerely,
> > Hans Deragon