Re: your mail

[Spauldo da Hippie Elf <spauldo geocities com>]

For GTK+, possibly.

I don't pretend to know anything about GUI development, especially with
Win95's Butt Ugly Widget Set(TM), but I do know that things like that
panel, etc. can replace explorer without problem.

Hell, you can run notepad as your shell if you want to.  There are,
however, workable shells for winblows out there, one of the best being
litestep (an afterstep clone, get multiple desktops, wharf w/asclock
lookalike and winamp plugin, all sorts of cool stuff.  If it wasn't for
the BUWS (see above) it's almost like being in something cooler than
windoze.).

Anyway, I don't know how going around the BUWS(TM) would work, and I
figure since M$ don't talk CORBA (or does it?  I've not heard of it, and I
can't see M$ actually adhering to a standard...), then the gnome apps
wouldn't talk to the windows apps.  But then again, gnome apps don't talk
to X apps either, so it wouldn't be that different.

Explorer's not impossible to get rid of by any means.  Try changing your
system.ini (possibly win.ini, it's been a while) to say SHELL=progman.exe
instead of explorer.exe, and voila! you've got program manager (the barely
functional win95 version anyway...  why'd they take away the ability to
have iconified program groups in a window, anyway?).

Gnome could probably be made to do something like this, with a TON of
work.  'Course winblows already has a desktop environment, although it
sucks.  UNIX don't, which is probably why GNOME is UNIX based (and the
fact that most cool development is on UNIX anyway :)

If I'm wrong, just flame me or something.

Spauldo

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> On 30 Oct, Rodrigo Moya scribbled:
> ->  >On 30 Oct, Rodrigo Moya scribbled:
> ->  >->  Hi all!
> ->  >->
> ->  >->  Good news that Tor Lillqvist's work is getting into Glib/GTK+ official
> ->  >->  sources. My question is:
> ->  >->
> ->  >->      Is there somebody working on porting GNOME to Win32?
> ->  >
> ->  >not that I know of.. and why?
> ->  >
> ->  To port it to Windows. Maybe some people that are always using linux can
> ->  find this idea stupid. But, unfortunately, in my work I'm always using
> ->  Windows, and it would be really nice, as a colleague of mine said, to have
> ->  Windows without a 'Start' button....
> ->  
> ->  The thing is that I use linux only at home, so I would like, at work, to be
> ->  able to run GNOME applications, as well as to compile and run any
> ->  application I may do for GNOME myself, without having a version for Windows
> ->  and another one for linux.
> 
> well you'll have to nuke explorer - that means writign a native win32
> replacement - gtk being ported wont help you there much. basically itsa
> nto a matter fo a drop in replacement.. maybe some apps can run but you
> wont be able to get an entire environment - not without lots of non
> portable work. Feel free to do it yourself if you want it.
> 
> ->  Regards
> 
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