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Re: Trying to install GEDIT

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From	Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca>
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Subject	Re: Trying to install GEDIT
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jacobnavia wrote:

> Le 05/10/2018 à 22:10, Jens Stuckelberger a écrit :
>> On Fri, 05 Oct 2018 22:00:15 +0200, jacobnavia wrote:
>> 
>>> Why do I need all those megabytes of different languages to compile a C-
>>> GTK based editor?
>>>
>>> Mystery.
>> 
>> Not at all - it's a text editor for the GNOME environment.
>> Throwing all sorts of stuff into the mix is par for the course for this
>> desktop environment, which is succeeding beyond all expectation at making
>> sure that Linux remains a nonentity in the desktop.
>> 
> 
> Excuse me my ignorance but I thought that GTK+ was the equivalent of the
> windows API for linux.
> 
> Is that wrong?
> 
> What other window APIs are there to use?

Long story short, Linux doesn't have /a/ windowing API; it has /many/ 
windowing APIs. Pick one. You can start here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_platform-independent_GUI_libraries



-- 
Lew Pitcher
"In Skills, We Trust"

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Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-05 22:00 +0200
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT Jens Stuckelberger <Jens_Stuckelberger@nowhere.net> - 2018-10-05 20:10 +0000
    Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-07 18:02 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2018-10-07 12:31 -0400
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-10-07 17:13 +0000
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-10-08 02:40 +0000
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-10-05 20:15 +0000
    Re: Trying to install GEDIT Jasen Betts <jasen@xnet.co.nz> - 2018-10-06 02:34 +0000
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2018-10-06 03:57 +0000
    Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-06 09:45 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2018-10-06 22:13 +1300
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2018-10-06 16:14 +0200
      Re: Trying to install GEDIT scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-10-06 14:53 +0000
        Re: Trying to install GEDIT jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2018-10-06 19:42 +0200
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT C W Rose <cwr@seckford.org> - 2018-10-06 20:57 +0100
  Re: Trying to install GEDIT Melzzzzz <Melzzzzz@zzzzz.com> - 2018-10-07 13:48 +0000

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