Re: [gtk-list] Re: GTK for windows

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

>On 30 Oct, Rodrigo Moya scribbled:
>->  >On 30 Oct, Rodrigo Moya scribbled:
>->  >->  Hi all!
>->  >->
>->  >->  Good news that Tor Lillqvist's work is getting into Glib/GTK+
official
>->  >->  sources. My question is:
>->  >->
>->  >->      Is there somebody working on porting GNOME to Win32?
>->  >
>->  >not that I know of.. and why?
>->  >
>->  To port it to Windows. Maybe some people that are always using linux
can
>->  find this idea stupid. But, unfortunately, in my work I'm always using
>->  Windows, and it would be really nice, as a colleague of mine said, to
have
>->  Windows without a 'Start' button....
>->
>->  The thing is that I use linux only at home, so I would like, at work,
to be
>->  able to run GNOME applications, as well as to compile and run any
>->  application I may do for GNOME myself, without having a version for
Windows
>->  and another one for linux.
>
>well you'll have to nuke explorer - that means writign a native win32
>replacement - gtk being ported wont help you there much. basically itsa
>nto a matter fo a drop in replacement.. maybe some apps can run but you
>wont be able to get an entire environment - not without lots of non
>portable work. Feel free to do it yourself if you want it.


Well, he could just run litestep (http://www.litestep.net/) and one of the
gnome themes available for it.  That would allow him to run "without a
'Start' button", and with a native GTK he could then easily make apps that
run under both winGTK and LinGTK. :)


regards,

JessTK