[ghemical-devel] Compilation Errors / Autoconf Check

[Michael Banck]

Putting back ghemical-devel on the list, I do not really want to get
into a private discussion about this...

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 01:24:19PM -0500, Donald E. Curtis wrote:
> > Porting ghemical to gtk2 looks like a reasonable first step, but it would
> > sadden me to see the GNOME part being dropped alltogether.
 
> I'm just wondering why the GNOME (what parts are strictly gnome?) parts are so 
> great.  From my understanding GNOME is built on top of GTK however GTK seems 
> to be getting developed faster and more stable than gnome.

I'm not really deep into this, but AFAICT GTK are the graphical widgets
and basic stuff, while the core GNOME libraries provide the user
interface consistency, interoperability and convience routines (File
Selector, Recently opened files, Preferences, Help, etc.), as well as
several more complex widgets.

GTk gets developped at a slower pace (one major version for every two
GNOME releases), but the two blend into each other more and more, and the
same people work on them. 


Michael