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[gtk-list] Re: Pure Gtk vs Gnome

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Havoc Pennington)
Tue Nov 3 07:18:55 1998

Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 06:16:37 -0600 (CST)
From: Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199811030302.WAA06981@stute.jacobus.stevens-tech.edu>
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On Mon, 2 Nov 1998 gandalf@pobox.com wrote:
> 
> I can see how I can wrap most of it so that i can continue to develop
> both, with little duplicate coding.  But is it worth the effort?  I have
> played a little and it seems you can run the gnome aware version without
> an active gnome session.  

This is absolutely true; Gnome programs don't require any kind of runtime
daemon or Gnome session, you can run them standalone like any other X
program. Using the Gnome libraries does not force users to use any other
parts of Gnome.

Havoc

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