On Sat, 2006-02-25 at 12:39 +0100, Carlo Capocasa wrote: > Personally, I'd love to see more GTK2 apps around. > > I think it's the oldest *full featured* toolkit around and I think even > the bloat is bearable (just keep your hands off anything that says 'Gnome')
/me starts a flamewar Even the packages which say gnome-vfs? So you _want_ the applications to be incapable of loading & saving files over smb shares, ftp shares, webdav or ssh shares? How about future proof sharing models? VFS handles that too. Oh, and how about printing? Like it's been said before. Installing kde or gnome libraries, doesn't force you to use either desktop environment. The libraries do take some disk space, but I personally think the benefits derived from using the libraries outweigh the disk space taken. I'm a programmer = I'm lazy = I don't want to write printing dialogs, or VFS support, especially since it's already provided by gnome. Bottom line, as I see it is: look at what features gnome / kde offers you. If they offer something you need (like VFS or printing) you SHOULD use them. Your own printing dialogs or VFS support will be inferior to what the gnome / kde teams come up with. Why? It's their job. An audio software programmer's job is to make the AUDIO part work really well, not use their time reimplementing the wheel. (Having said this, Ardour will probably never have gnome dependencies because afaik at the moment gnome doesn't offer us anything we need). -- Sampo Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
