“As many of you already know, Jonathan and I are trying to
deprecate more and more of the gnome libraries with every new major
release of GNOME. Why is that?:
- Lack of library goals- Pretty much all of the libraries in the
platform have a defined goal. GTK+ is for the user interface,
libxml is for XML processing, GConf is for handling configuration.
But what is libgnome and libgnomeui for? Right now they’re a mix of
broken widgets and code that wont’ fit elsewhere…”
“Since my last blog entry I’ve gotten some questions; here’s an
attempt to try to answer them:“Why is GnomeProgram horrible?
There are a number of reasons why this is true:
- “The API. The API is not language binding friendly, it’s not
even C friendly; it has lots of confusing functions and is plain
weird…”
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