[gst-devel] offtopic : portabillity of libgnomeui

[David Schleef]

On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 05:47:38PM +0200, Stefan Kost wrote:
> As gstreamer on windows is making good progress, we would like to make our app
> (http://www.buzztard.org) working on windows as well. As we have stated with the
> functional stuff, it was not a problem. But now we have started a gui editor,
> that is currently just gtk based. There I am stuck, as we need a canvas and that
> is part of gnome. Requiring this is probably a problem for windows portabillity?
> Can anyone comment on this? Or can libgnomeui easilly be ported to windows,
> without the need for all the other gnome stuff.

My experience is that other than the Gimp, GTK, and Glib, portability
of GNOME components is sketchy at best, and downright nonexistant at
worst.  One big sticking point is bonobo, on which libgnomeui depends.



dave...