Re: GTK+ 3, Win32 and GtkApplication (DBus woes)

2011-03-30 Thread Kean Johnston
There is no separate devel list for glib or gio, it all happens here. Thanks for the info. I have some ideas I need to mull around for a bit that I'll post about in the near future. For the GtkApplication part I just think someone will have to spend some time on the GtkApplication code making s

Re: GTK+ 3, Win32 and GtkApplication (DBus woes)

2011-03-30 Thread Alexander Larsson
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 16:54 +0200, Kean Johnston wrote: > Since I am new to this list I am unsure of the etiquette involved in > discussing issues in integral underpinnings of GTK+ like Glib/Gio, and I > know there's a fair amount of cross-pollination of developers, but if > discussions of Glib/

Re: GTK+ 3, Win32 and GtkApplication (DBus woes)

2011-03-28 Thread Kean Johnston
Yes I'm sorry about that. I innocently assumed it would be properly portable as everything in GTK+ is portable, and there was no proper notation that the application object was not available on win32 or osx (like say, GtkUnixPrint widgets). For the most part it seems that GTK+'s portability holds

Re: GTK+ 3, Win32 and GtkApplication (DBus woes)

2011-03-28 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:26 PM, Kean Johnston wrote: > On 3/28/2011 1:12 PM, Paul Davis wrote: >> >> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Kean Johnston >>  wrote: >>> >>> Hello everyone, >> >> GtkApplication is a rather new piece of the GTK API. There has been >> quite a bit of discussion about its r

Re: GTK+ 3, Win32 and GtkApplication (DBus woes)

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:26 AM, Kean Johnston wrote: >Considering what a long history Gtk+ has of being > very portable, I would say that this is a subtle mis-perception. GTK's support for non *nix, non-X11 platforms has happened generally inspite of, rather than because of any central portabili

Re: GTK+ 3, Win32 and GtkApplication (DBus woes)

2011-03-28 Thread Kean Johnston
On 3/28/2011 1:12 PM, Paul Davis wrote: On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Kean Johnston wrote: Hello everyone, GtkApplication is a rather new piece of the GTK API. There has been quite a bit of discussion about its role and its impact on cross platform portability. I'll try read more of the ma

Re: GTK+ 3, Win32 and GtkApplication (DBus woes)

2011-03-28 Thread Paul Davis
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Kean Johnston wrote: > Hello everyone, GtkApplication is a rather new piece of the GTK API. There has been quite a bit of discussion about its role and its impact on cross platform portability. The answer for now is that if you want cross platform portability, si

GTK+ 3, Win32 and GtkApplication (DBus woes)

2011-03-28 Thread Kean Johnston
Hello everyone, I am new to this list and I am attempting to write my first GTK+ application. For a change of pace, I decided to do my primary development on Windows instead of Linux, as the particular application I am writing will most likely be run most often on Windows. I chose GTK+ as the