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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



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Lew Pitcher
"In Skills, We Trust"