Re: [gtk-list] Re: Proposed widget

[Karl Nelson <kenelson ece ucdavis edu>]

> as neat as this is, i don't think it's a very good candidate for the gtk
> distribution. i really don't have any authority to say, so don't take my
> words to be gold, but IMO gtk shouldn't get much bigger than it already
> is. i'm afraid someday in the far future we'll look back and laugh at
> "those gtk people, just ended up reinventing Motif".

I agree.  There is not much of a reason to build all of 
the external widgets into the source, but that still doesn't mean
the contributed widgets like this shouldn't follow as close as
possible to the gtk form.   

> 
> let's not let gtk get stuffed with every widget ever imagined.. maybe we
> could have a text file "EXTERNAL_WIDGETS" with URLs pointing to some other
> not-made-for-main-distribution widgets? because personally, i think if
> only a few games are going to use this, it should be separate.

Or it should be part of a contributed widget bundle that builds a
static library and installs as an option to gtk.  I never like
having URL pointers all over the place as they are constantly out of 
date, so you can never find them.

I can tell you for sure that any pointer I give to this widget 
will be gone within the next two years. (when I graduate)

--Karl