Re: gtkhtml

[Maher Awamy <muhri muhri net>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2000 11:29:07 +0300, Ali Abdin said:

> > 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.
>  
>  Just for the record gdkpixbuf is moving into Gtk+ - In fact the process 
>  has already started on CVS HEAD.

Very true ..

>  Secondly - libart /may/ be taken out of gnome-libs. I'm not sure though - 
>  so you may have to ask raph. libart is a very generic infra-structure 
>  that is used within GNOME
>
>  > 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.
>  
>  You can easily provide a patch to gtkhtml with a --without-gnome option 
>  that would remove the GNOME dependency (i.e. stop using libart and don't 
>  build the capplet)

And say this patch was submitted, do you think the gnome developers would have
wanted it applied, and would have kept making it possible that the option would
always work, anyhow - something like that was proposed and no answer or
agreement was reached !

Maher
  
>  > 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.
>  
>  According to one of the GIMP developers. GNOME libraries will be used if 
>  it is appropriate. They will only add dependencies where it makes sense - 
>  They will not add dependencies just because 'its there'
>  
>  > 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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