Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal GUI

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From: Erwin Rol <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2003 23:45:43 +0100
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 23:05, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 10:45:18PM +0100, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > When Ethereal runs on OS/X, WIN32, GNOME, KDE, etc. wouldn't it be an
> > idea to make true native GUI's for those systems and following the HIG's
> > for those systems ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
> BTW, this means that we should probably have a GTK+-only version of
> Ethereal *and* a GTK+-plus-GNOME version (with stuff that Ethereal does
> itself, but that's also done in GNOME - e.g., dialog boxes - done using
> GNOME code in the GTK+-plus-GNOME version).

Yes gnome and gtk applications are different, but they might be similar
enough to do with #ifdefs. A Qt and a Gtk version by way of #ifdefs will
be rather messy i think. The same for a true WIN32 or OS/X version.   

> > As far as i know the GUI is rather separate from the
> > core functionality anyway ?
> 
> It's not necessarily separate enough to easily do that yet.

But it is something to look into ? Or should i drop the topic right now
? :-)

- Erwin

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