Re: Why not to split gmc and other gnome applications into threads?

[Antonio Campos <acampos ceronet com>]

Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> >  So it could be nice (like I think it's in Windows) that GMC and other
> >  GNOME (even GTK) applications split themselves into threads. So for
> >  example GMC could have a thread to redraw the icons on the desktop each
> >  5 seconds or so, another thread could redraw the tree of directories on
> >  the left and other to redraw the icons of files on the right.
>
> The new file manager which will replace MC has a completely
> non-blocking VFS.  This will solve the problem you described.
>
> >  Even more nice would be to make these threads callable for every GNOME
> >  application, so that every application could have a little GMC into
> >  itself if it needed it.
>
> The new VFS is callable from any application :-)
>
>   Federico

All of this seems to turn GNOME in the right direction... :-)