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

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

George <jirka 5z com> writes:

> On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 03:31:53AM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > One important item I did not see mentioned is to remove gnome-config
> > and change everything in gnome-libs that uses gnome-config to use
> > GConf. The whole central manageability thing that GConf is supposed to
> > provide will not work unless GConf is used pervasively.
> 
> Removing gnome-config is not an option, there are things that we need to keep
> compatibility with that depend on gnome-config.  For example the desktop file
> parsing.
> 

I'd be happy to keep around ini-file parsing code for the purpose of
parsing .desktop files, but the gnome-config API should be removed or
at least deprecated.

> Plust there are a LOT of apps that use it.  it's use for new things should be
> discouraged, but we can't remove it.
> 

Sounds to me like the public entry points should go in libcompat.

 - Maciej