Re: gnome desktop integration library

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

JP Rosevear wrote:
> #ifdef HAVE_GNOME is a choice the app developer has made, if they don't
> want to rely on a complete desktop then they'll replace this #ifdef with
> another if all the stuff is in gtk+, #ifdef
> ENABLE_ONLINE_OFFLINE_SUPPORT, or something similar.

The point is that GTK would automatically take care of statically and/or
dynamically adapting to the available platform and dependencies for you.
#ifdef'ing gdk_session_get_online() would be a 100% no-op. (other than 
removing the machine language instructions that wrote the bool into a 
local variable)

> No, I feel no need to put crap in a library, I outlined several useful
> cases in a previous mail that are not crap at all.  The issue is
> historically this higher level stuff has simply not gone into gtk+.
...
> First, the original proposal was to combine two *existing* code bases
> with a little cleanup.

Is the proposed library definition "these two existing libs and that's 
it" or "higher level stuff"? "higher level stuff" I think needs a 
clearer spec! It's pretty much the same definition that the old 
libgnome/libgnomeui had (well, originally there was some BS about "GNOME 
has policy and GTK does not" but that was just silliness from back when 
we didn't know a thing about GUI programming)

Havoc