Re: [Dillo-dev]GTK+-2.0 ?

[Andreas S. <an...@ph...>]

Hi

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 04:50:56PM +0200, Sebastian Geerken wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2002 at 08:27:59AM -0300, Livio Baldini Soares wrote:
> > Hello Lawrence!
> > 
> > Law...@ds... writes:
> > > If Dillo needs GTK+-1.2, are there any plans to make a GTK+-2.0 version? If
> > > so, any idea when it might become available?


> Availibility on distributions is indeed a problem, since this affects
> how easily dillo can be installed.


Just one thought on that one : dillo is popular on low end machines.
If I would have to go through a major pain to upgrade gtk just
to get dillo running I would think twice. Now, I don't know how
much more resource hungry gtk2 compared to gtk1.2 is. But either
way, an upgrade on a low end machine may be painful.

Also, I think it hurts a project to always use the latest
cool, on-the-edge libraries out there because hardly any
distro has the latest, on-the-edge versions included. When
I see a project, think it's cool, and start reading in the
requirements that I need lib-o-so-cool lib-o-so-new I start
thinking if it is really worth it.

Of course, dillo is the coolest thing ever ;-) and theoretically
only for developers (although there are probably far more end users
than anticipated at this point), therefore, you can expect more flexibility
from its audience.

Just my 2 cents.

Cheers,
Andreas

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