Under a standard Debian stable with garnome ported gnome2 it installs with little faff.
GTK2 is tubby sure - but what DO you want people to use for GUI development? QT? I'd sooner scrub with a wire brush and bathe in detol. Java? Well, if you want everything to look ugly and run-once limp-slowly-everywhere technology that's fine.
The problem is people who don't really understand what makes something portable building on top of people who don't really understand what makes something portable.
But really, I still fail to comprehend why anyone would run BSD -- even if there's some warped belief it's technically superior, it's just too much shag to get anything to compile. [Which is, of course, the coders fault but that's no comfort.]
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Date: 2003-12-01 03:11 am (UTC)GTK2 is tubby sure - but what DO you want people to use for GUI development? QT? I'd sooner scrub with a wire brush and bathe in detol. Java? Well, if you want everything to look ugly and run-once limp-slowly-everywhere technology that's fine.
The problem is people who don't really understand what makes something portable building on top of people who don't really understand what makes something portable.
But really, I still fail to comprehend why anyone would run BSD -- even if there's some warped belief it's technically superior, it's just too much shag to get anything to compile. [Which is, of course, the coders fault but that's no comfort.]
By the way, gaim 0.72 is out I believe. :-)