Re: [Pan-users] Not following Gnome standard?

[Charles Kerr]

Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA wrote:

> OK, I am no coder and it is none of my business, but don’t people who
> want a GTk+ app tend to also use Gnome?  If one is one other desktop environment
> one will want a native toolkit, unless it is, for example, a Gnome user forced
> to use MS Windows at work but wanting an app consistent with his home system.
> And even so, Novell seems to be solving the problem well with Evolution.
>
> What I worry is that Pan (1) gets more complex, with more options to
> set, (2) becames a lower common denominator app, (3) will end up being forked,
> just as Firefox has its Gnome equivalent in Epiphany, (4) contributes to code
> bloat in a running system.
>
> Like, Pan is nice and I intend to continue to use it.  But if someone
> forked it to use libgnome and libgnet and all that, I would have a simpler,
> better performing system.  And there are already W32 alternatives for MS
> Windows, and there will be probably Qt ones for KDE, GNUStep ones for GNUStep
> and Mac OS, FLTK ones for XfCE…

I think I must be misunderstanding you, because this sounds like
insanity.  You seem to be suggesting that Pan drop Windows and OS X
support, force KDE users to use Gnome to configure Pan's preferred
applications, and add a dozen library prerequisites so that Pan
can sniff out your editor of choice automatically.

I'm also not understanding what you think gnet can do for Pan.

Charles