Re: gdk_spawn API proposal

[Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com>]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 03:24:10PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 20:06, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95897
> > 
> > 	Its not on gtk.org/plan/2.4/ but its still on the 2.4 milestone, so I
> > thought I'd put the API out for review.
> 
> What do other people think of this? Is this something you'd use
> in your applications?
> 
> It feels like a bit of a bad match for GDK for me, but I do
> see the niche that it's trying to fill, and I don't see anywhere
> else that would be *better* than GDK for it if it makes sense
> to add.

Can we only add this one API (below)?

> > /* Return a copy of the current environment with DISPLAY modified
> >  * (or added) to the screen/display indicated by @screen.
> >  */
> > gchar **gdk_make_spawn_environment_for_screen (GdkScreen  *screen,
> > 					       gchar     **envp);

The rest of the g_spawn_* wrappers just feel like bloat.

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