Re: Bug#167297: ITP: gnome1 -- The GNU Network Object Model Environment (version 1)
Josselin Mouette <josselin.mouette@ens-lyon.org> writes:
> Le ven 01/11/2002 à 17:33, Colin Walters a écrit :
> Are you serious? If you actually want to make them parallel
> installable, you are looking at an enormous amount of work. Wouldn't it
> I haven't investigated the details, but (thanks to good packaging), only
> the core Gnome packages (panel, session, control center...) are not
> currently installable simultaneously. If it turns out to be too
> difficult, making the two versions conflict would be a reasonable backup
> solution.
Do you know that you are trying to fork my packages ?
> be better to just work on adding back functionality that you miss from
> GNOME 1.4 into GNOME 2?
> That would mean porting dozens of GTK-1.2 engines and themes to GTK-2.0
> (while the GTK developers admitted some of them would be very difficult,
Some engines are already ported to gtk-2.0
> if not impossible, to port), patching several window managers so that
> they support Gnome 2, and changing completely the panel and the control
> center so that everything that was configurable in Gnome 1.4 is also
> configurable in Gnome 2. *That* is an enormous amount of work.
Not true. Applications who ship a capplet should be build against
libcapplet1-dev. Only some minor changes need to be done in the desktop
file.
Christian
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