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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: GNOME Desktop Project
From:       weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de
Date:       1997-08-19 11:17:12
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Hi,

On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> 
> > a) Printing
> 
> The question is really: what applications need to render information
> out?  The office-like applications are the only ones that come to
> mind, and then, in that specific case, I am positively convinced that
> I want to use DPS for that sort of application.  Display Ghostscript
> works just fine these days. 

But display postscript works just bad with Gtk, does not it ?
If all GNOME apps would be unable to print, then you have a problem.
With my cicero experiences I can tell you that generating postscript
is not always as easy as one might think at the first glance.

Bye
Torben

> > b) Pixmap handling, manipulation, IO plugins for new image formats
> 
> this should be trivial to implement.
> 
> > c) Transparent undecorated windows
> 
> I am told that GTK_WINDOW_POPUP will do this.  I am not sure how to
> handle transparent windows though.  But anyways, both points (b) and
> (c) seem easy to implement.
> 
> > d) Socket support in the event loop
> 
> I can not figure out what is missing in the Gtk.  You pass a file
> descriptor to Gtk and a callback is invoked when input is available or
> output can be sent. 
> 
> Miguel.
> 

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