Re: [gtk-list] Re: Docking toolbars

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 08:42:24AM -0700, J Douglas Winters wrote:
> > The GnomeDock provides this functionality.  It is in the gnome-libs
> > module and all applications that use the toplevel GnomeApp window use
> > it by default.
> 
> Am I the only one who hates hearing that Gnome does this or that?  Things
> like proper docking toolbars really belong in GTK+, not an extension
> (IMHO, anyway).  Not that I have anything against GNOME, one of these days
> I'll try it, but I like to keep my app's lib requirements to a minimum and
> I feel that it is "wrong" to require GNOME libs for an app that is
> intended to run anywhere. :)

I see your point ... but not using gnome libs (or libgnomeui only) just for
the sake of not using it, is not all that smart ... if you can port gnomedock
into gtk and they accept it ... great ... but then there will be another
widget in libgnomeui that would be cool to be used in a vanilla gtk app ...
... I don't see that many problems with using gnome libs ... libraries are
there so that programmers don't have to reinvent the wheel all the time ...
not to mention that if you reinvent the wheel, it will take up more memory
as that will not be shared between apps ... and your executable will be
larger, you'll spend more time on it and it will not act similiar to other
such implementations ...

George

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