Re: gnome desktop integration library

[Joachim Noreiko <jnoreiko yahoo com>]

--- Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> wrote:

> Vincent Untz wrote:
> > We've talked about this a few times, and I believe
> consolidating our
> > GNOME integration libraries makes sense. So we'd
> basically have GTK+
> > (and friends) and libgnome-integration (or
> whatever you call it) for
> > what can't go in GTK+. (okay, we also have
> gnome-vfs and some other
> > libraries...)
> 
> You could call it... libgnome!
> 
> This has never made sense to me - what would be not
> able to go in gtk or 
> other appropriate lib? There just isn't anything.
> I'd say the definition 
> of gtk is an API for writing GUI apps. So if
> something is usually needed 
> to write GUI apps, gtk should have it, or something
> is busted.

I requested last cycle for a help button to be put
into the File Chooser dialog [1], and the general
feeling I got back from the GTK people was that they
didn't want a dependency on parts of the gnome desktop
going in GTK.

(Yes, this is banging my drum again, but it seems
relevant to the discussion of the GTK/GNOME divide.)

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333878


	
	
		
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