Re: [Gaim-devel] Gnome 2.0 Applet stuff

[John P. <jo...@ma...>]

The problem with going with a partial port (#ifdef GTK2) is that the
build scripts are still searching for 1.0 macros.  I don't see Gnome 2.0
as bugg apart from some of the behaviors of individual apps.  I do see
it as a lot faster(and nicer looking) than 1.0 expecialy Nautilus.  And
Gaim would be mostly Gtk+ which has been 2.0 longer than the Gnome
libs.  Also the Gtk+2.0 API and build scripts are just more sain.  Many
people have refused to switch to 2.0 until their favorite apps and
applets appear on the platform.  A chicken and the egg problem at best. 
To this end someone even mentioned Gaim on Slashdot as a deciding factor
for switching. 

How about this.  I temporarily fork Gaim, rewrite the build scripts and
proceed to get it to compile on my pure 2.0 machine.  At some point it
becomes usable I show you guys, you sign off on it if you like it and it
is released as a intermediate 2.0 build.  At some point in the future
when Gtk/Gnome 2.0 is blessed as usable the codebases can merge.  I know
forking can be bad for a project but that is usualy when done after a
big flame fest :-).  Tell me what you think. 

-- 
J5 

On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 20:20, Justin wrote: 
> My only beef with that, is that Gnome 2.0 is far from a stable thing yet, so 
> hardly anybody will be dumping the 1.0 libraries or even upgrading to Gnome 
> 2.0 (and sticking to it) for a while...   
> 
> I really want to check out Gnome because KDE is simply driving me crazy 
> lately... but.. eh.. I dont think I'd have much more fun in Gnome, sadly..
> 
> I hope that a Gnome 2.0.1 release will be out soon to fix alot of the big 
> problems and by that time more people will have made their apps gtk+ 2 
> compatible...
> 
> -Justin