Re: gtkhtml

[Christian Schaller <uraeus linuxrising org>]

Ok,
Things like this really bugs me, how many machines out there have gdkpixbuf and
libart installed, but not gnome-libs? Very, very few is my estimate.

Of all potential and current CSC/Pronto users how many of them will use GNOME
or have GNOME installed? A very large perctange is my estimate.

In other words, all the that this really brings is getting 95% of the
CSCMail/Pronto's userbase to waste their diskspace in order to statisfy some
weird phobia against libs with the name GNOME in them for the last 5%.
Fantastic.

This reminds me a bit of Gimp which also have talked about wanting to use 6-7
of the GNOME libraries in their next version, but in order to keep their GNOME
dependancy low, GNOME libs will not be one of them.

Who the hell are 'all' these people who have all these gtk and GNOME support
libraries installed and who gladly will install 50 others as long as there is
no GNOME dependency, yet who think GNOME libs will take up to much of their
precious disk space.

Just me wondering and feeling a bit sarcastic
Christian

Maher Awamy wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 bob@thestuff.net wrote:
>
> > What is this? http://www.cscmail.net/cschtml/
>
> Its GtkHTML with no GNOME dependancy.
>
> > What caused this fork?
>
> To make the HTML widget easier to compile.
>
> > Can all parties cooperate and recombine the two projects, so that there is
> > no duplication of work?
>
> So far the work that has been done is removing the GNOME dependancy layer
> where it only requires gdk-pixbuf and libart to compile. Also the perl
> bindings have been updated to support a couple of new features for font
> face support and so on to have cscmail/pronto use that feature to swithc
> the font used to display messages. I doubt that a combination of the two
> projects is something that is watned... A lot of users wanted to compile
> GtkHTML and it has been a pain for them.. so thats why Steve did what he
> did.. I think its a pretty good idea. CSCMail/Pronto do not require gnome
> and GtkHTML does - look at the FAQ, http://www.cscmail.net/cschtml/FAQ
>
> Maher
>
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