Re: Putting lots of things into bonobo.

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

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:

>         Essentialy I agree with you Martin, even though I have more lines
> in my Emacs buffer:

Hi Michael,

this is really great that you mostly agree with me :-)
      
>         I don't envisage lots of stuff creeping into Bonobo for Gnome 2.0,
> in fact, quite the opposite - I plan to throw out some of the deprecated
> crud that is in there, prune down the interfaces to only those that are
> used, and only those methods that are really used, drasticaly pare down
> some of the server 'helper' wrappers since XObject deprecates them, cut
> down the fat in XObject and make the thing a lot leaner.
>         
>         The thought of adding a load of disparate, non-component API's,
> with lots of code / API that cannot be changed, without proper review,
> design and scrutiny into Bonobo upsets me slightly :-) For Gnome 2.0 I
> want to make the process of interface and code integration into Bonobo
> even more strict, requiring an API to be used fully and successfuly
> outside before it is integrated into the core.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense to me.

Btw. are you interested in a patch to make Bonobo compile with GTK+ 2.0 ?

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