[colord] RFQ: Adding a GTK+ dep to libcolord

John Pybus john at pybus.org
Thu May 3 03:03:08 PDT 2012


On 03/05/12 10:40, Richard Hughes wrote:
>
> This means adding a GTK dep to libcolord. Is this a good idea? I can
> certainly add a --disable-gtk configure switch if that's required, or
> even make a libcolord-gtk library, but I'm not sure I want all the
> overhead unless it's required. The patch I'm thinking about is
> attached, comments welcome. Everyone has GTK installed, right?

I only have GTK installed on desktops.  If colord wants to be the 
profile store for printing too, then it really shouldn't depend on any 
graphical system; many print servers won't have one installed.

I guess it's less of an issue if there's a build time option.

John


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