Re: GnomeClient replacement?

[Ben Maurer <bmaurer andrew cmu edu>]

Hey,

On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Jani Monoses wrote:
> the GnomeClient API is for some apps the single Gnome dependency that
> has no GTK equivalent and that keeps said apps tied to the >25 or so
> platform libraries. Other libgnome(ui) uses are gnome_program_init() and

Yes! Fixing this will be very good for GNOME, and greatly reduce the cost 
of some our daemons.

> gnome_help_display() which can be replaced by gtk_init variants and
> directly spawning gnome-open or yelp.

Well, the other thing that the gnome_program_init provides (as I 
understand it) is the bug-buddy hooks. However, IMHO, this is more of a 
distro thing. Ubuntu's solution 
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutomatedProblemReports) seems to be better here, 
as distro specific stuff can make great efforts to get symbols, etc.

-- Ben