Re: GUI appearance and GNOME

[Jeff Teunissen]

S P L I C E R wrote:

> Hi! I've been programming Mac OS X apps for just over a year now. I'm
> thinking of buying a laptop and running RedHat Linux on it.
> 
> On the GNUstep.org web site, the following is stated about GNOME:
> "GNUstep works with GNOME and KDE, although it has not been optimized
> to do so (no one has put in the work to do that). GNUstep runs on top
> of X11."
> 
> What does this mean exactly? If I write an app using GNUstep, what will
> it look like under GNOME? Will its windows/buttons etc take on the look
> of the current gnome theme (such as RedHat's BlueCurve)? What about X11
> themes?

It means that GNUstep apps will work with GNOME or KDE -- that having KDE
or GNOME running won't cause GNUstep apps to go off into the weeds or
decide to eat your hard drive for lunch. That is, it has no special
support for GNOME.

That having been said, there is some support for ".desktop" files, in that
GNUstep app wrappers have some information for GNOME or KDE to use in
generating desktop icons.

By the way, there is no such thing as an X11 theme.

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