Re: gnome/kde application?

[Max Watson <redline pdq net>]

At 12:33 AM 4/14/98 +0200, Christian Esken wrote:

>
>You need more than a simple program for a proof-of-concept.
>You need a program with menu, toolbar, scrollbars and some
>"drawing area" inside.
>
>The kdesdk has an example, khexdit, which might be good for you.
>It is 20KB C++, and has everything mentioned above. Just leave
>out its fancier things like net transparency and online help for
>a start.
>
>Christian
>

Why leave those things out? First off, GNOME can do that too. And where it
can not,  it should. Besides, if you leave those things out, then the
zealots and  around here will only be too happy to point out that KDE does
things GNOME can not, rather than seeing it for what it is. A difference of
philosophies. The last thing our projects need is more FUD and holy wars.

What would really help, IMHO, is a tiny little patch to GNOME (since GTK+
is in code freeze) to set the KDE wm hints or whatever mechanism is used on
the tear-off windows. I know it is not the same, because my mwm-hints
compliant wm treats the two differently (the KDE tear-off gets decorated).
This would only be a few lines of code in the right place, since other wm
hints are being set at that same time. Actually, I need to implement this
in my wm as well. Unless somebody wants to write GLyx. :)

M.Watson redline@pdq.net
off to retrieve the kwm source...