Daniel Egger wrote:
>
> Great... so maybe you can tell us what we'd gain from using gnome in
> GIMP. Now tell us: what would we get for linking against another bunch
> of libraries?
>
You don't seem to be very familiar with gnome-libs, especially not with the
progress that was/is being made towards the next release. Without going into
details, I see lots of good stuff we could use, like
gnome-print for printing (preview, native printer drivers, a nice print
dialog)
gnome-font for font-rendering (don't know if gnome-2.0 will have this)
gnome-canvas for the UI (he draw routines we use on the gimp canvas are
very difficult to handle, using objects that can be connexted
to
and emit signals would make our live much easier)
libart provides convenient and optimized functions for all sorts of
affine transformations
gdk-pixbuf image-loading and simple (but fast) transformations (we may
want
to use this to implement a proper brush and patterns system
since
it integrates nicely with libart which would give us scalable,
rotatable brushes/patterns for free)
gconf for configuration (have a look into the code for the
preferences-dialog, it sucks badly ...)
gtkhtml seems to be a very nice replacement for gtkxmhtml
...
Now, tell me why we should recode all this on our own. It would not only be
ridiculous to do so, I can also assure you that it is beyond our limits due
to limited resources of good developers willing to spend their time to do it.
On the other hand, a lot depends on the GNOME people. I hope that their goal
is to provide a bloat-free set of portable libraries that don't depend on too
much other stuff we don't want to use.
Salut. Sven
