Help moving from Xt to Gtk

[Ken Fox <kfox ford com>]

I know Xt and the Xt widget model really well.  I'm starting to learn
Gtk (hopefully so that I can help out with widget coding, not just
writing apps) and would like to map what I know about Xt into Gtk.  Are
there any docs that can help me?  The FAQ is oddly silent about
this -- seems like an obvious way to attract Xaw/Xm programmers to the
project.  (Did I just volunteer for the job? ;)

The one area I'd like to work on in Gtk is resource management.  From
what I've read so far Gtk doesn't do any.  Would it be ok to adopt the
standard X resource model to Gtk?  Are there others working on this
right now?  It will probably require a few new standard signals, such
as "resources_changed", and possibly other structural changes -- I'd
hate to approach such a job lightly.

Also, I'm wondering why Gtk isn't just a widget set built on Xt.  The
e-mail archive search isn't working and Deja News didn't turn up anything.
Is it a license issue?  Or is Xt just a poor choice for the toolkit that
Gtk wants to become?

Thanks in advance,

- Ken

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