Re: [Ayttm-users] gtk2 port

[Michael Gurski]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 04:39:19PM +0100, Colin Leroy wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 15:45:49 +0100 Nicolas Peninguy
> > Yes, I think doing it in a clean way would require lots of work.
> 
> I'm still wondering _why_ gtk people didn't provide an simple way for such
> things. Ok, gtk1 API is not as good as Gtk2's, but a compatibility API
> would have been welcomed.

Time to pipe up and throw another possibility out there, which I
realize is likely not gtk2 compatible, but would ease
cross-platform...  wxWindows, anyone?  (I've since discovered that,
yes, mingw32 does indeed work for compiling w32 binaries on linux...)

> > It seems they are reinventing GConf (Gnome 2 preferences system) with
> > their "EB registry".
> 
> Which is anyway the stupidest thing I ever saw. Who wants a registry
> instead of plaintext files ? 

This was the biggest thing that bugged me reading about eb-lite...  I
*like* plain text files.  They're easy to read, easy to understand,
easy to edit...

> > What about a XUL interface ? :-))
> 
> Nooo, everything but that :-)))

I see an anonymous suggestion to an EB list coming on. :-)

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