Re: libglade vs glade for dialog generation

[Gus Koppel <gtk spamkiller bytechase cx>]

Gus Koppel wrote:

> On my Linux system the dependancy difference between compiling +
> linking with or without libglade support is: libglade, libxml2, libz
> and libpthread. Originally I believed libexpat belongs to it too, but
> here I was mistaken. libexpat belongs to the libxft periphery, rather.

If I may add, this means that two distinct XML helper libraries are
required for a GTK+ 2.x application which uses Xft and libglade. I think
it's regrettable, that programmers (and users) who don't intend to deal
with XML at all in their applications, would be forced to install + use
not only one but two distinct XML libraries for any newer GTK+
application. (libxft and libfontconfig IMHO are misdesigned as well.)

I can imagine few possible augmentations to this redundancy drawback.
One would certainly be, in future versions of GTK+, to be required to
link against i.e. the QT libraries as well in order to use GTK+   ;-)