Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 05:18:10PM -0600, Brian Cameron wrote:
> 
>> Alan:
>>
>> Regarding the SUNWGlib and SUNWGtk packages:
>>
>>>> Right, but we were wondering what the pacakages are used for, and who 
>>>> delivers them.  Do you know?
>>> They deliver from SFW.   In the past they were used by Netscape 6/7 and
>>> I think even early Mozilla 1.x builds in the days before the GNOME 2.0
>>> bundling with S9U4.   I don't know if anything current needs them.
>> Yes, now that you mention it, that sounds right.  I am suspicious that
>> we might not need these packages anymore in Nevada or Indiana since
>> I don't think mozilla is a part of our distro anymore.
> 
> They're there for the many (though slowly becoming fewer) number of apps
> which never bothered to port to gtk+2.  They're small and unobtrusive.
> They needn't be installed if nothing depends on them, but we should keep
> them for a while longer.

A graphical configuration application I wrote for an Adventure Game 
engine was never ported to Gtk2, it remains one of those annoying apps 
that still uses gtk 1.2 :-)

-- 
Shawn Walker
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