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