Re: GNUstep Window Manager (was RE: Idea)

[Frederic]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
> > I think this was already discussed one time in the past ;-) Using glib
> > in gstep-base would at least easen using gtk+ in gstep-gui.
> 
> But at a loss of efficiency in GNUstep apps (or hard work avoiding that) ... 
> it would
> be much more effective to alter gtk+ to use the base library (if we wanted to 
> use gtk+).

This is somewhat already done with GToolKit which relies on GNUstep-base
library.
(http://www.inf.uos.de/elmar/projects/gtoolkit/).
But I understand easily that using gtk+ for gnustep-gui backend is not
appreciated very much in GNUstep community. Still, would not that be
possible to allow using gtk+ widgets/components inside AppKit? The KDE
team has recently shown a technology called XParts (a variant of KParts)
that allows to embed toolkit neutral components. Practically, it means
that Konqueror (KDE filemanager) can use Mozilla's GTK-based html
renderer.
For GNUstep, this could mean being able to write a web browser quite
rapidly. The other option, in this case, is to make a version XPToolkit
directly based on AppKit (a much bigger task).

Frederic