Re: GNOME skeleton program thoughts

[Glynn Foster <Glynn Foster Sun COM>]

Hey,

> It is difficult to define what the skeleton for a GNOME program should
> be since there are a lot of alternatives. In fact, since libgnomeui
> might be deprecated in the future, and because GtkUIManager has a lot of
> the stuff from libgnomeui - the following is a current version of the 
> skeleton (post GNOME 2.6/GTK+ 2.4): 
> 
> main (...)
> {
>     // declare variables 
>     
>     program = gnome_program_init ();
>     
>     window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOP_LEVEL);
>     
>     // lots of GTK+ calls using window, including GTK+ UI manager calls
>     
>     gtk.main ();
> }
> 
> Is this correct ?

Yeah, this looks a lot better to me - others might be able to say what
the plans and schedule are for deprecating parts of libgnomeui.

> This potentially still has the problem that gnome_program_init () might
> be init-ting some sort of application/program object that will be used
> later. Another observation is that most apps don't need to use the
> returned GnomeProgram, and proceed to making many gtk+ calls after that.

gnome_program_init sets up a bunch of things - from calling gtk_init,
setting up the arguments for commandline parsing, setting up
environments and search paths for help documentation and loading
modules. Still pretty useful in a GNOME world.

Glynn