RE: gtkhtml

[Maher Awamy <muhri muhri net>]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Poletti, Don wrote:

> I thought that anything that started with gtk did not 
> depend on gnome? Shouldn't it have been GnomeHTML then?
> 

Correct, exactly what Steve points out in the FAQ

> I don't understand why you think they should not be recombined?

Recombind as in? they can copy the font switching feature just fine, but
can you compile GtkHTML without GNOME depeandency? No

Maher

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Maher Awamy [mailto:muhri@muhri.net]
> > Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 4:02 PM
> > To: bob@thestuff.net
> > Cc: gnome-list@gnome.org; countzero@cyberdeck.org; stevek@voila.net
> > Subject: Re: gtkhtml
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 bob@thestuff.net wrote:
> > 
> > > What is this? http://www.cscmail.net/cschtml/
> > 
> > Its GtkHTML with no GNOME dependancy.
> > 
> > > What caused this fork?
> > 
> > To make the HTML widget easier to compile. 
> > 
> > > Can all parties cooperate and recombine the two projects, 
> > so that there is
> > > no duplication of work?
> > 
> > So far the work that has been done is removing the GNOME 
> > dependancy layer
> > where it only requires gdk-pixbuf and libart to compile. Also the perl
> > bindings have been updated to support a couple of new 
> > features for font
> > face support and so on to have cscmail/pronto use that 
> > feature to swithc
> > the font used to display messages. I doubt that a combination 
> > of the two
> > projects is something that is watned... A lot of users wanted 
> > to compile
> > GtkHTML and it has been a pain for them.. so thats why Steve 
> > did what he
> > did.. I think its a pretty good idea. CSCMail/Pronto do not 
> > require gnome
> > and GtkHTML does - look at the FAQ, http://www.cscmail.net/cschtml/FAQ
> > 
> > 
> > Maher
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