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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: gimp for KDE (was: Re: KOffice)
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () informatik ! uni-tuebingen ! de>
Date:       1998-05-31 11:50:54
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>                                                Kaiserslautern, 31.5.98
> Hi!
> 
> On Sun, 31 May 1998, Ivan Schreter wrote:
> 
> > Uh, anybody wants to port GIMP to KDE? It's a wonderful image manipulation
> > program. And since it mostly uses GTK for menus and dialogs and AFAIK
> > gtk is also C++ it should be fairly easy to rewrite (though time consuming).
> 
> gtk is C, not C++. There exists a C++ binding, AFAIK.
> 
> It would be very cool to have kgimp, but it really would be a VERY LOT of
> work to do. And since gimp is changing very rapidly, it would be a mess to
> keep kgimp up to date. Maybe someone could write a tool called gtk2kde?
> :-)
> 
> Any ideas?

In my talk about "multi-toolkit programming" at the Linux Kongress
(http://www.linux-kongress.de) I will address this issue by demonstrating
a technique which may make porting of the gimp to KDE much easier.

It's not much more work than porting KLyX was, and it could be distributed
on many shoulders.


Greets,

   Matthias



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