On Sunday, 09 September 2007, at 23:49:01 (-0400),
Youness Alaoui wrote:

> Well, I agree on what you're saying, and I've thought about it too,
> but slightly different. I was thinking that E, just like KDE and
> Gnome, should have its own toolkit, and 'etk' answers that by being
> 'enlightenment toolkit' (I'm talking here about the key word
> "toolkit").  So if we compare the words "Enlightenment Toolkit" then
> ETK is a toolkit... while EWL, "Enlightenement Widget Library" is
> more of a library providing widgets (which is also known as a
> 'toolkit' but it doesn't have the 'toolkit' keyword in it).

I really sincerely hope you're kidding.  This kind of thinking quite
simply defies all logic and reason.

> ETK being a simple wrapper to EWL would avoid code duplication,
> would centralize the efforts, and would help the users choose their
> API more easily.. instead of saying : "you have two toolkits, choose
> one", one could say "EWL provides you with widgets, and ETK wraps it
> into a higher level API".  That would be awesome, but I'm guessing
> this idea will get some people angry... not sure what others think
> though...?

I think those who are not authors of the aforementioned toolkits need
to BUTT THE HELL OUT and stop trying to make decisions for projects
that don't involve you, that you don't understand, and that you have
no business interfering with.  If you want a widget library to wrap
EWL, write your own.

Michael

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