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[gtk-list] Re: Proposal for a new project
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Federico Mena)
Tue May 13 14:11:03 1997
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 13:09:50 -0500
From: Federico Mena <federico@nuclecu.unam.mx>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: <x7vi4nw9nk.fsf@sn.no> (message from Espen S Johnsen on 13 May
1997 19:42:55 +0200)
Reply-to: federico@nuclecu.unam.mx
Resent-From: gtk-list@redhat.com
> Now that a very nice free GUI toolkit exists (you know which), I
> think the time is right for a new project: The General Desktop
> Environment, GDE for short.
I think starting yet another desktop project is a complete waste of
time. There are just too many of them.
What I would do is port KDE over to Gtk as quickly as possible, plain
and beautiful C only. Then I would show that work to the KDE people.
> If we start now, we may even catch up with the KDE project before
> they release their first official (non-beta) version. One program
> which will be necessary is as small and fast documentation browser
> for HTML 2.0, info and man pages.
I think you can use a lot of code from the existing KDE widgets.
If someone is going to do this, I think it should be as fast as
possible. KDE/Qt/C++ is getting big and the code is settling down, so
the sooner a Gtk version is available, the better.
Quartic
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