Re: becoming embebbed

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 30 Mar 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> "Chang Woo Lee(Ultracat)" <ultracat@gmate.co.kr> writes: 
> > how can we reduce GTK's size?
> > 
> 
> It should be a configure-time option:
>   ./configure --core-widgets-only
> 
> This would compile a smaller GTK+ if you want it.

there's never going to be *the* standard set of "core gtk widgets"
for more than one application.
introducing --core-widgets-only means that you have 50% users
complain that it doesn't include their favourite pet core widget,
and 50% users complain that its still to huge and GtkFooInCore
could not be considered a core widget.
the right thing to do is to move _seldomly_ used widgets (and with
those i mean stuff that isn't used in every-day applications, and
is unlikely to be found in other toolkit distributions as well,
like GtkRuler and GtkGamma) along with widgets that don't belong
into gnome-libs into a seperate library, which also may come with
more dependancies than gtk, and be done with it.
any vendor that's really going to setup gtk-based embedded devices,
will do his own trimming of the toolkit and other components anyways.

> 
> Havoc
> 

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ciaoTJ