Re: Reminder: shared library applets deskguide and tasklist.

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 18 Jan 2001, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> 
> > > The patch I posted to the list is still valid (modulo 2 little
> > > conflict removals).
> > 
> > As long as this is a configure option, I'd say commit.  
> 
> I would like some peer-review action going on instead.
> 
> > This brings up another idea.  All of tasklist deskguide and the
> > panel share two files called gwmh and gsct (or whatever they are
> > named) They keep the lists of windows and all that crap.  I think it
> > should work to just not link those files into a shlib versions of
> > deskguide and tasklist, and that will cut down the X traffic.
> 
> I suggested this in my initial post, and Tim said that he did not want
> to see it as a shared library, because it was not a finalized API.  I

i'm more concerned about the implementation at this point, as especially
the gwmh API isn't in very wide use currently.

> think we can make a shared library and not install the headers files,
> so it just becomes a runtime file and not a development tool.

that being said, some issues i raised when this idea came up originally are still
outstanding, mainly:

>3) there are some subtle issues with window manager changes
>   that cause major resource increases upon wm changes, not
>   revertable during runtime

> That being said, it seems like the maintainer of
> gnome-core/gnome-applets (Berkman) decided to commit it (I think
> "seems" because he mentioned something like this on irc, and I have
> not actually talked to him about this).

i first want to review the changes in question before anything of that
gies into deskguide CVS HEAD.

miguel, can you/boc whoever has the most polished version send
me the unified diff?


> 
> Miguel.
> 

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ciaoTJ