* Enrico Weigelt <weig...@metux.de> schrieb: > > > Actually, I'm entirely not convinces of the concept of self- > > > contained applications at all. Sooner or later they will have to > > > integrate/communicate with some other application (eg. beginning > > > with tiny things like adding some menu entry or icon), and this > > > will require some top-down coordination. And that's exactly the > > > point where distributions come in. > > > > no, this is where defined APIs like the ones from freedesktop come in. > > You're assuming, any interaction between applications allowed is > what's specified in that APIs.
Ah, and the freedesktop APIs specify how to find the necessary components (eg. resources files) of applications living in arbitrary places ? cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
