Re: [Pan-users] Dependency hell with Pan on SL

[walt]

On 06/29/2011 01:16 PM, K. Haley wrote:
> On 06/28/2011 03:35 PM, walt wrote:
>> On 06/28/2011 10:20 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>
>>> ... And, I don't like the idea of a DE [gnome] that depends so
>>> much on interpreted languages; no matter how fast your box is,
>>> there's got to be a performance hit and it adds up.
>> I've not tried gnome 3 yet -- gentoo is moving slowly towards it,
>> not rushing.  What interpreted language do you refer to?  I'm not
>> aware that gnome 2.x relies on such a language.
> IIRC, a lot of the interface uses javascript.

Humpf.

$ls -lF /usr/share/idl
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep 27  2010 bonobo-2.0/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Sep 27  2010 bonobo-activation-2.0/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Apr  4 08:36 gnome-panel-2.0/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Mar 13 01:28 orbit-2.0/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 40960 May 25 11:46 xulrunner-2.0/

Those sneaky gnomes adopted the mozilla interface description
language without even telling me :)