Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote:
Ofcourse these cross platform apps are geared to compile with many different GUI toolkits. They bundle their own dependencies.

None of those are gnome specific dependencies (as far as I know).

In particular, GTK is *not* gnome-specific, as evidenced by the fact that there are GTK applications written for Windows, OS X, etc.

sure...@opensolaris:~$ ldd /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin | egrep gtk\|gdk
   libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 =>     /usr/lib/thunderbird/../libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
   libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 =>     /usr/lib/thunderbird/../libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
   libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 =>     /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0
sure...@opensolaris:~$ ldd /usr/lib/firefox/firefox-bin |  egrep gtk\|gdk
   libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 =>     /usr/lib/firefox/../libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0
   libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 =>     /usr/lib/firefox/../libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0
   libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 =>     /usr/lib/firefox/../libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0


Thunderbird, at last check, does not have any GNOME-specific dependencies; it works quite happily on other desktops.

Cheers,
--
Shawn Walker
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