Re: tasklist applet, shared library version.

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> 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.

Hmm, maybe we should start using the new bug tracker for such
maintainer-submitted bugs.

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Martin Baulig
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