jude ui wrote:

what I want to do is to cut down GTK so that it's only a part of gimp - could I do that and still run gimp with no problems?

Hi

GIMP probably is the most broad GTK+ client.

If you want to run GIMP without a dependency on an external GTK+ library you could build GIMP and link all libraries statically.

But may I ask why you would want to do such a thing?

BR, Martin

jude ui wrote:

Thanks! however I don't like the fact that way GTK+ can be pretty slow for interfaces - to be honest I want to build applications based on the *enlightenment foundation libaries *to draw the eyecandy and what not- and use gtk as an extention to EFL (the same for qt)

With "slow", are you refering to development time or runtime performance? If you mean runtime performance, what benchmarks are you basing your claim on? In any case, most of the execution time will not be spent in the UI-code for an image editor.

If you want to replace the UI code for GIMP, the first step would be to submit patches and help separate application logic from UI logic. If the patches are of high quality it should not be any problems with integrating the in the main tree, becuse such patches would improve the overall code quality. I'm thinking that once the UI code is completely separate from the application logic, it shouldn't be hard (only boring and time consuming) to write the UI code using a different library.

BR, Martin