Hi, Nelson Marques wrote: > I don't quite understand why GIMP Project on their website seems so > distant from the open source community without any links to other > projects such as GNOME, KDE or whatever. I would understand not having > KDE, but not having a GNOME link is kinda lame hence they GNOME GTK > toolkit.
It's historical. Actually, the GNOME project was an out-growth of the GIMP - GTK+ was a GIMP project, and one of the founders of GNOME, Federico Mena Quintero, was a GIMP developer and maintainer for several years. GTK stands for "GIMP toolkit". The GIMP decided not to depend on the GNOME platform for a number of reasons (many related to performance issues and cross-platform concerns), and so at one stage it was necessary for the GIMP developers to affirm that the app was not a GNOME app, but was a GTK+ app. This also avoided making waves with the Qt/KDE community. The need for distinction has gradually eroded, I think. The GIMP still does not depend on Gconf, libgnome, GNOME VFS (although I heard they recently started to depend on gio/gvfs), but it is in some sense spiritually a GNOME application. If you want a link to gnome.org on the GIMP website, you should ask - I'm sure there would be no problem with it, but they would also probably put a link to kde.org too. And I agree about being helpful. Careful though, some of the GIMP developers can be a little prickly sometimes. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list