Re: Windows and DLLs

[Jochem Huhmann <joh unidui uni-duisburg de>]

On Thu, 01 Oct 1998 15:52:09 EDT Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> >  It's really funny: MS is trying to make NT (5.0) a lot more multi user
> >  aware and on the other side all unix desktop folks are trying to make
> >  unix a lot more like windows, copying shortcomings of it.
> >  
> >  I *really* hate that gtkrc-thing of gtk and gnome, BTW. No way to define
> >  a hierarchy of settings (per-app, per-user, systemwide). Just like
> >  oldfashioned  MS-Windows INI-files. It's a shame.
> 
> Please read some code before you post statements like this.  The gtkrc
> mechanism allows you to override settings from one rc file to
> another.  All that is needed is a policy to read in system/user/app
> files in order, and that is pretty much just adding a couple of lines
> to gnome-libs/libgnomeui/gnome-init.c:gnome_rc_parse().

Yes, that would work for Gnome apps. But not for the Gimp and not for
any other X app that does not use libgnomeui. I'm really happy that the
concept of a window manager is already established, since otherwise
every library would come with it's own window decorations and taskbar
and such...

But since I've not contributed a single line of code to Gnome, I will 
stop now. Sorry for my criticizm.


	Jochem




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