Re: about incoming gnome-libs 2.0 and MDI

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jaka Mocnik <jaka.mocnik@kiss.uni-lj.si> writes:
> this is a planned feature for GNOME 2.0 and I've already got some code
> that does this. it requires only deriving a new class from the existing
> GnomeMDI class and replacing a few relevant "virtual" functions. the
> problem is that I think this will render the GnomeUIInfo method of
> creating menus and toolbars useless for this Bonobo-MDI. then again,
> this might be a good thing as it is awkward to use for complex
> menu/toolbar structures and I'm rather unhappy with the API. 
> btw, where does such a class belong - libgnomeui or bonobox?
> 

My favorite thing is to have bonobox below libgnomeui, depending on
GTK, and then libgnomeui-dependent bonobo stuff in libgnomeui itself,
but right now it's the other way around so you have to put it in
bonobox.

Havoc