Re: GnomeClient replacement?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Bill Haneman wrote:
> gnome_program_init also loads the accessibility support, calling gconf
> in the process.  It's not clear to me that this could conveniently be
> put elsewhere without complicating the dependencies of other modules...

This is a broken hack that should have been killed long ago, should 
never have been allowed into libgnome at all since it means that 
gtk-only apps need to either cut-and-paste the code or just not be 
accessible, despite having all the other a11y code already in gtk.

It can be done with e.g. a GTK_MODULE instead, iirc. or perhaps an 
xsetting type of deal to get the gconf flag into gtk itself.

I remember threatening long ago to kill the cut-and-paste from metacity 
after a release or two if nobody fixed this properly; Elijah, you should 
do that, I think it's been maybe two years or more! Fortunately Elijah 
is probably nicer than me and won't enforce the threat ;-)

There's a metacity bug about it iirc.

This has got to be a perfect poster child for why maintainers should 
reject broken half-measures on grounds that nobody will fix it properly 
once you accept a broken patch.

Havoc