Chipzz wrote: > On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Havoc Pennington wrote: > > >> Why can't gtk depend on dbus? How do those reasons not apply to libgnome? >> >> I don't know, I'm asking. But there's no reason to just make an >> assumption up front that gtk can't depend on dbus, or that gnome should. >> > > Because gtk+ is not just gnome. Gtk+ is also maemo. Gtk+ is also xfce. > Gtk+ is also a possible choice for embedded apps on phones, pdas, and > stuff like that. Gtk+ is also a library for very simple apps, where > very tight desktop integration does not make sense. > > As much as I think a gconf dependency would be a good thing for gtk+, gtk+ > is a widget library, not a library for tight integration.
But that's not a reason why _Gtk+ on Linux_ cannot have a DBus dependency, appropriately abstracted behind a "platform settings storage" API. Gtk+ on Windows can have a dependency on RegEdit, and Gtk+ on embedded systems can interact with whatever platform-native mechanism exists there. [ We're probably talking about Glib, really, here, aren't we? ] -- Andrew _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
