On 2/17/06, Danny Milosavljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Freitag, den 17.02.2006, 18:52 +0000 schrieb Tony Pelton:
> > On 2/17/06, Danny Milosavljevic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > I think, all the Linux systems have Gtk.
> > >
> > > yes, at least the ones that have graphics at all...
> >
> > mmm ... no.
> >
> > the ones that have Gtk installed have Gtk installed.
> >
> > Gtk is in no way a requirement for a Linux system running x-11 with a
> > non-Gnome window manager/desktop.
>
> I meant for useful practical purposes...
well ... not to give you a hard time ... as i would agree that it is
_probable_ that a given Linux system has GTK installed.
> maybe some embedded device or firewall distro or 10 year old thing
> actually doesn't have it, but at least I know of no current desktop
> distribution that doesn't have it... feel free to correct me :)
... but to give you an example.
i have a company laptop that i use for web application developement
... my day job.
i use Gentoo which is a source based distribution.
i use a full featured KDE desktop, built on top of Qt.
i have GTK installed, but the _only_ piece of software i have
installed that _requires_ GTK is Firefox.
Firefox is in now way required on my machine.
I could use Konqueror (KDE web browser/file manager) for web surfing.
So ... I have a very functional but clean Linux machine that in now
way _requires_ GTK for GUI operation.
i _think_ Fluxbox and maybe even FVWM are also NOT depedent on GTK,
and Fluxbox in particular is a pretty snazzy window manager that many
Linux purists quite like.
so again, i do agree that odds are, GTK is installed, but it is really
quite possible to run a full featured x-11 Linux machine without it.
>
> cheers,
> Danny
Tony
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