Re: GUI stuff

[Joeri van Ruth <ruth@wins.uva.nl>]

On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 04:24:12PM -0600, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Gnome has two faces. From the developer's point of view it is an
> application development framework. It adds a lot of useful widgets to Gtk,
> adds some convenience functions, adds some things like configuration file
> loading/saving, adds CORBA (analagous to DCOM), adds image file loading,
> etc. This is all in the 'gnome-libs' package. 
> 
> The other face of Gnome is a desktop environment and set of applications
> built using the developer's framework. However, if you use the framework
> your users are not forced to use Gnome; gnome-apt, for example, runs just
> fine without any of the desktop stuff installed. (The desktop environment
> includes a file manager like Windows Explorer, a start-menu type thing,
> etc.)

I am wondering which part of gnome-libs gnome-apt uses.  I would imagine
it to have little use for image file manipulation and CORBA, for example.
So does it use some of the added widgets?  Or configuration file management?

Joeri van Ruth <ruth@wins.uva.nl>