Re: Theme suggestion: use shared libraries

[Marc Ewing <marc redhat com>]

Joel Dillon <emily@cornholio.new.ox.ac.uk> writes:
>   One possible problem with using dll's - what happens with 3rd-party
> widgets? Do they supply a shared library for each look and feel for
> each widget (or small group of them)? That's going to lead to lots
> of shared libraries hanging around on the system, and would presumably
> slow down program loading.

I think you have the same problem even if you aren't using the
scheme we've talked about.  (And I doubt you'll ever notice a
slowdown with dynamic libs).

But you raise a good point.  Perhaps there should be a way for
a theme to provide a set of generic attributes that can be used
by widgets the theme doesn't even know about?

-Marc