Re: Win32 port

[Chris Hippchen <christoph yourinter net>]

But why would you want to?

lebarre@us.ibm.com wrote:

> Just out of curiosity (I'm sure it's been discussed many times before):
>
> In Windows 95/98/NT, it is still possible to replace the Explorer desktop
> (even though it's not readily documented by MS).  I wondered how readily
> Gnome and Gnome apps could be ported to Windows (for those of us who have
> to use & support it for now)?  Gimp currently has a Windows version.
>
> I expect the major issues involve libraries.  How would Unix library
> methods differ from Windows' DLLs?  The other issue is probably with how
> Win32's handling of GUI events differs from how X handles them.  If you
> used a utility like 98Lite to remove all the IE, DirectX, media player,
> etc. bloat & hooks, perhaps some kludge could be managed.
>
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