On 1 Feb, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
>> Great... so maybe you can tell us what we'd gain from using gnome in
>> GIMP. Now tell us: what would we get for linking against another
>> bunch of libraries?
> 1/ economy of coding
Uhm, more concrete?
> 2/ better integration
Into the GNOME desktop? At best this should be optional...
> 3/ total bloat reduction (if the user already uses other programs
> linked with the same libraru)
I'm sorry to tell you, but although I'm trying to compile gnome from
time to time I don't use any application that DEPENDS on GNOME and
I'm really happy about that....
> 4/ it was a discussion about using *selected* libraries, like
> gnome-print, not the *entire* gnome framework.
gnome-print depends on gnome-libs, doesn't it? At least I can't
compile it right now without it. That would mean that we have to
additionally link at least against gnome-print, gnome-libs,
libart_lgpl, gnome-xml, gconf, ORBIT...
Hm, seems well worth the effort... :)) Maybe there could be a plugin
that integrates well into GNOME but you wouldn't want to make the whole
GIMP depend on it, would you?
I prefer a print plugin that works without gnome...
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Servus,
Daniel