[477] in Athena User Interface
Re: Integration of gnome libraries imminent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Wed Oct 25 17:33:59 2000
Message-Id: <200010252133.RAA02647@m66-080-11.mit.edu>
To: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "25 Oct 2000 14:26:00 PDT."
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 17:33:47 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
> 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.
Sawfish sort of supports gdx-pixbuf, but it needs patches that the
sawfish author wrote and that have not been taken in official
gdk-pixbuf release. Or at least that's the last I heard. Given the
choice of having an unsupported gdk-pixbuf or a supported imlib, I've
gone with the supported imlib.
yak
