[Mono-list] Mono libs and linux desktops

Ian Norton ian.norton-badrul at thales-esecurity.com
Wed Sep 19 12:21:09 UTC 2012


On 17/09/12 20:02, IBBoard wrote:
> Also, XFCE uses GTK anyway, so GTK# in XFCE will look native, while GTK#
> in KDE might look a little out of place (but if you're from Windows then
> "not quite fitting with anything else" is the norm these days!)
>
> Depending on your distro then you might find that someone put in an odd
> dependency that still pulls in parts of Gnome, but Debian should be well
> structured and shouldn't do that.

You can almost put money these days on any linux system having gtk 
installed.

In the next few years there is a chance that distros might be less likley to
have gtk2 installed once more and more gtk apps switch to gtk3. In those 
cases you should ask your users to install gtk2.

Ian


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