Re: [Bug-gnubg] GNOMEify the user interface?

[Jim Segrave]

On Wed 05 May 2004 (19:31 +0200), ??ystein Johansen wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> I'm browsing through the GNOME developer manuals and I find out that the
> GNOME libraries has a lot of good stuff that GNU Backgammon is currently
> missing. At the same time GNU Backgammon utilises a lot of the GNOME
> libraries already. Since all our widgets are in GTK, I don't think it
> will be much problem of interating GNU Backgammon to the GNOME desktop.
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> Discussion: Do we really want that?
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> On one side, I think the gnubg project could benefit on makeing based on
> GNOME the componets, like gnomeui etc. The interface could benefit in
> the way that it will be using the GNOME standards, and the users will be
> therefore be familiar with the menu systems etc. We can simply add drag
> and drop functionality, and maybe a MDI could be implemented simpler as
> well?
> 
> On the other side. If it depend fully on GNOME, users who don't have
> GNOME will be annoyed I guess. I don't think GNOME is portable to

Having tried Gnome under RedHat and rejected it as being somewhere
beyond awful, I'd certainly not want it to expect a Gnome
environment. 

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Jim Segrave           address@hidden