Re: a broad question

[Paul Davis <pbd Op Net>]

><viewpoint you won't like>
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>Non-native pixmap GUIs are completely broken, for reasons such as i18n
>and accessibility. Plus you'll probably end up doing various ICCCM and
>other X stuff incorrectly. If you use at least GtkWindow you can get
>at least part of this right - you get proper WM hints setting,
>gdk-pixbuf, and the nice expose compression/anti-flicker. It'll still
>be a broken app of course.

thankfully, i'm not writing the app, just the library that will allow
the app to be broken :) besides, we're in the proverbial
rock<us>hardplace situation here. cool plugins use the API so that
their GUIs can be run on multiple platforms, and we want the cool
plugins to run on linux ... part of me prefers the "layout it out in
XML" approach, but we'll never get the existing windows/macos plugin
developers on board with that.

btw, what do you mean by "non-native" in "non-native pixmap GUIs"?

--p