[ghemical-devel] Compilation Errors / Autoconf Check

[Donald E. Curtis]

On Tuesday 07 September 2004 13:39, Michael Banck wrote:
> 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

Hrm, i see.  When i was developing some glade apps i just noticed that you 
could use a gnome window and a gtk window and i couldn't tell much difference 
between the widgets.  There are a few things i remember like help and color 
picker that didn't exist in gtk so i guess its not really an issue if it goes 
one way or the other.  

Maybe a port to KDE? :) j/k