Andrew Sobala wrote:
> 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? ]

So I should read the parent before replying. Sorry, I'm a dork.

But scrap the references to settings and replace with "message-passing 
RPC," and the gist of my post still holds.

Thanks,

Andrew
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