On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 01:10:11PM -0400, Michael Jennings wrote:
> 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.
> 
It certainly depends, seeing how your logic work, I understand how you can't 
figure out how my logic works.

> > 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
> 

Oh right, you're completely right.. and since you're not an author of those 
libs, as you said yourself, then why don't you just BUTT THE HELL OUT
and stop polluting this thread.


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