Re: My vision of gnome-libs (was Re: GNOME 2.0 meeting summary)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> writes:
> sorry, I didn't finish my explanation: after the compatibility layer, you can
> 
> add wrappers to the extra functions in GConf, and thus all gnome_config
> apps remain binary compatible, and at the same time they've got access
> to GConf's full potential through the gnome_config API, if they want to.
> It will make more sense to some people to use gnome_config_* and
> gconf_*. And also, you won't have to tell all developers using
> gnome_config right now to upgrade to GConf, you just tell them that the
> gnome_config API has been extended

This is some serious API bloat, and won't work properly anyway. ;-)

> About breaking desktop file parsing, I think that's another issue: that
> stuff should be moved, IMO, to glib
> 

It's not of general interest, glib is not desktop-specific.

Havoc