Re: Using gnome libs without a gui?

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp@redhat.com> writes:

> Toshio Kuratomi <badger@prtr-13.ucsc.edu> writes:
> > Is it easy to use libgnome without utilizing the
> > gui aspects of the gnome system?  Specifically, I'm
> > thinking of using gnome-config functions in an
> > ncurses application.  Is this a good idea?  What
> > overhead will I be creating?  Should I/can I link
> > to libgnome without linking to libgnomeui?
> > 
> 
> In principle this is indeed supposed to work, but I'm not sure anyone
> has ever done it so you could encounter bugs in the process.
> 

Depending on your development horizon and willingness to be tied to
CORBA, you could also consider using GConf instead of gnome-config.

 - Maciej