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 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
