Re: [gtk-list] Re: Gnome/GtkCanvas (was Re: gtk_args_collect & gnome--)

[KC5TJA <kc5tja topaz axisinternet com>]

On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, James McPherson wrote:

>  > Worse, JUST BECAUSE Gnome has a really cool Canvas widget, imagine having
>  > to download Gnome just to use the later versions of GIMP and/or any of its
>  > extensions!!
> 
> that's why Gtk is the Gimp ToolKit. Clever, huh?

And this bears on the conversation how?  GIMP, Gnome, and GNU all start
with G.  There's NOTHING preventing a role reversal.  Nothing.

> you _do_ have ghostscript installed, don't you? ghostscript, the free and
> portable postscript interpreter from the Free Software Foundation which is

Which is incomplete and buggy enough to crash on a variety of Postscript
input files...

> problem. Do you know about Applixware (http://www.applix.com), Corel (which
> publishes WordPerfect as part of an office suite) at http://www.corel.com, or
> Star Division (http://www.stardiv.de) which publishes StarOffice free for
> non-commercial linux use? 

I knew about them weeks before they actually hit the market.  Anyone who
reads Slashdot would know about them.

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