Re: tasklist applet, shared library version.
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Tim Janik <timj gtk org>
- Cc: Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com>, Hacking Gnomes <gnome-hackers gnome org>, andersca gnu org
- Subject: Re: tasklist applet, shared library version.
- Date: 05 Nov 2000 22:57:11 -0500
Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes:
> nope, that idea is not so good.
>
> it's a good idea to merge the tasklist and deskguide at some
> future point of maturity, but there are compelling reasons
> to not make them shared libraries:
>
> 1) the gwmh backend is still unstable ALPHA and that won't
> change until it implements the new wm spec
> 2) gwmh is still a bit crashy in some areas, we don't really
> want that to affect the panel too much at this point
> 3) there are some subtle issues with window manager changes
> that cause major resource increases upon wm changes, not
> revertable during runtime
>
We need to get these in the bug tracker, it sounds like they should be
release-critical bugs for 1.4.
Havoc
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