From kde-devel  Sat Aug 02 18:40:06 2003
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 2003 18:40:06 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: checking for GTK and glib in configure.in.in ?
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Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Friday 01 August 2003 22:59, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>>The "you suck" comments tend to have a lot higher reaction time
>>>then the endless "please, please, oh, please don't assume that KDE
>>>developers have Gnome libraries installed".
>>
>>I think that is reasonable to assume that many users have the
>>libraries that are needed to use The GIMP. 
> 
> 
> No, it's not. GIMP doesn't require developmental packages of neither 
> Glib or GTK+.
> 
It is hard to build The GIMP from source without them.
> 
>>Remember, GTK doesn't  stand for GNOME Tool Kit.
> 
> 
> Are you going somewhere with this? 

Yes, where I'm going is that your anti-GNOME hostility shouldn't be 
directed towards GTK.

> It doesn't matter what it stands for, 
> what does matter is that we've chosen a different toolkit as our 
> default GUI toolkit and a hard dependency on another is simply 
> unacceptable. 

Well so much for KDE SVG??

> By a "hard dependency" I mean one that doesn't let you 
> compile the rest of the module in which the app using another toolkit 
> is located.

You do know that KDE is dependent on GNOME XML tools, don't you?

I guess my point is: MELLOW OUT!!

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JRT

 
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