[Java-gnome-developer] How to make Java-Gnome popular...

[Clemens E. <Lin...@we...>]

Hi everybody!

I've now written a very first Version of my wine-configurationprogramm 
using gcj and java-gnome.
There are two problems contributing my app:

1. Java-GTK is very big!(~5megs (the java-jar, the gcj-so and the c-part 
of the bindings)
I think this problem isnt so easy to solve. But ist a little problematic 
that the java-bindings are much bigger than the library for which the 
bindings were written, maybe we can optimeze the code a little bit, so 
that we can use the -O3 flag for the C-part. -O2 should work everywhere 
and the  size of libjavagtk.so should decrease 30-50%. Are there any 
optimisations used for now? I thin only the C-part is the problem, the 
jar-archive already very small. The second problem is the compiled part 
for the gcj, which is about ~3.2 megs big. maybe with some playarounds 
it can be done with 2.5megs but not less ;-(

2. There are no user-ready packages avaible. (.deb, .rpm, .tar.gz)
Althougt this is a big problem it  should be very easy to solve. Were 
included in no distribution, and users cat even download any 
binary-packages.
I'll build some packages using esp in the next month - maybe we'll be 
included  in UnitedLinux ;-)