Re: Empowering platform developers [Was: GUnique]

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Richard Hughes wrote:
> No stick taken :-) For me, is the dependency issue. Can gtk+ depend on
> DBUS? If the answer is yes, then the decision is a no-brainer - put
> libguniqueapp into gtk.

Remember the question isn't just "can it depend" but how, cf.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2006-September/msg00025.html

My opinion (fwiw, maybe not much) is that the X11 backend of GDK should 
have an optional dependency on dbus, since dbus is how we're proposing 
you canonically do certain things on the platform (while on win32 these 
things might be canonically done with syscalls or COM but not with dbus, 
since on win32 dbus is not the "native" API).

By optional I mean both compile-time and runtime:
 - check for HAVE_DBUS similar to the checks for various X extensions
 - at runtime, continue in some way if the session bus is not running,
   perhaps minus certain functionality or falling back to X hacks

Havoc