On Ter, 2006-08-08 at 22:38 +0200, Preben Randhol wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 23:24:01 +0200
> Arnau Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> >
> > And I'm still a bit puzzled why the GTK library appears as a
> > dependency for the (debian) package:
> > 
> > Package: mozilla-thunderbird
> > Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.9.0), libc6 (>= 2.3.4-1), libcairo2 (>=
> > 1.0.2), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.3.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.1.5-1), libgcc1
> > (>= 1:4.0.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0)
> 
> 
> I'm no expert, but I thought that XUL was a wrapper for a given
> underlying GUI library. GTK for Linux and on Windows it uses the GUI
> of Windows. However, I might be wrong.

  IIRC, XUL uses only part of GTK+, specifically GDK and the gtk style
(themes and theme engines) APIs.

  A XUL widget does _not_ wrap a gtk widget; it creates its own widget
and asks gtk+ to paint it using the theme.

> 
> Preben
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