[476] in Athena User Interface
Re: Integration of gnome libraries imminent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Wed Oct 25 17:27:36 2000
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 25 Oct 2000 14:26:00 -0700
In-Reply-To: Greg Hudson's message of "Wed, 25 Oct 2000 15:06:12 -0400 (EDT)"
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Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I'm going to start integrating the gnome libraries and necessary
> supporting libraries into the Athena source tree soon, so that the
> task of integrating things like sawfish or panel won't be as hard
> later on.
>
> I'd like to pick things to integrate intelligently. The particular
> things I'm concerned about are:
>
> * As I understand it, a bunch of things (like sawfish) still
> use imlib, even though gdk-pixbuf is supposed to replace it.
> Is this true? Is this likely to still be true around March?
I think sawfish in particular has moved to gdk-pixbuf, but Imlib still
part of the GNOME platform and gnome-libs depends on it, even though
apps are moving away from it. It will not be totally gone until GNOME
2.0 when backwards source and binary compat will be broken. GNOME 2.0
is unlikely to be done by March.
> * I'd like to pick up the most recent version of each package,
> not necessarily the version which is in gnome 1.2. (So that
> there will be less merging work to do when gnome 1.4 comes
> out.) Where should I be looking? I already know more or
> less where to look for the supporting libraries like
> libjpeg which aren't strictly part of gnome.
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable (some relevant libs might be in
unstable instead, sadly).
>
> I will of course be using the aui locker as a reference for what local
> changes were necessary at a certain time, but I will be reexamining
> them and submitting them for source review rather than applying those
> changes blindly.
Please consider feeding anything that might be of general interest
upstream.
- Maciej
