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Just wondering
by LuckySandal on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @08:08

Any possibility that the new low-level style API will help spur development of a common widget set / backend for Qt & Gtk on freedesktop.org? Linux is in real need for a standard GUI, and having one would allow GNOME and KDE to work closer together, always a good thing!

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Re: Just wondering
by James Livingston on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @08:22

I haven't looked in detail at what the low-level APIs provide, but some of them already have an equivalent for GTK. Whether or not we'll see them merge is something we'll have to wait and see, but it would be a good start.

Glib provides container classes like Tulip.
I'm fairly sure Cairo is similar to Arthur.
Pango is the equivalent text renderer to Scribe.

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Re: Just wondering
by ac on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @08:37

I doubt such a merge would be widely used unless it's both compatible with Trolltech's Qt and available for all systems theirs is (which is highly unlikely if GTK is to form the base of the merger).

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Re: Just wondering
by mmebane on Tuesday 28/Jun/2005, @09:24

I don't know if that would happen, but the new API sounds like a good thing for the Gtk-Qt Theme Engine.

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