Re: GNOME 2.0 planning: A longer range roadmap

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com> writes:

> On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:24:59PM -0800, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg home com> writes:
> > 
> > > In an ideal world the bonobo-ui specification and verb/layout split
> > > would be use in gnome-libs. 
> > 
> > I don't expect it to be ready for prime time for GNOME 2 unless some
> > major peer review action of the design and implementation happens.
> 
> This seems like it should be a priority.  Having multiple
> incompatible menu/toolbar apis in the next generation platform is is
> not going to be less painful that last time we tried it.  Michael
> has created a proposal in Bonobo for 1.4.  Lets take that as a
> starting point and review modify it as necessary to get something
> standardised in gtk, gnome, bonobo.

Havoc mentioned the Gtk+ team had specific criticisms of the design
and was hoping to do something at the Gtk+ level. Maybe if they have a
preliminary design they could post it, and perhaps the right people
could meet at GUADEC to hash something out.

However, I doubt this is going to happen for GNOME 2.0. Perhaps 2.2
and we can then deprecate the old APIs.

I do agree with you though that the many different menu/toolbar APIs
we have now constitute a mess of the highest order; I think some
proposals and a GUADEC summit should be given high priority.

 - Maciej