Re: [gtk-list] Re: Proposed widget

[KC5TJA <kc5tja topaz axisinternet com>]

> I have to pay 25 DM for 8 MB. I have absolutely no problem to spend 2
> pizzas for Gtk+.

Problem is: Linux won't load all 5MB into RAM.  It will dump some of that
out to swap file.

Furthermore, we're dealing with harddrive space here as well.  a 5MB
binary is absolutely *******HUGE*******, especially for a single
component.  If you want to have such huge binaries, please make the switch
to Windows.  They have that sort of thing all the time.  I don't want it.

If GTK is going to get much larger than 2MB, I will switch to using LibGGI
and implementing my own user interface.

Now, I have absolutely NO objections to having a 1MB or so libgtk.so file,
and having *extensions* to it, a la GGI.  That I can handle.  But having a
single, monolithic library that is all inclusive is decidedly a
Microsoft-ian way of thinking about the user interface.

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