Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

[Sebastian Rittau <srittau jroger in-berlin de>]

On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 12:10:26PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> I had a random thought at the summit; what if we add a new library in 
> the stack (perhaps shipping with GLib or GTK tarball, I don't know). 
> Call it libgapplication. It would contain:
> 
>   - GApplication
>   - GSettings
>   - dbus main loop hooks
>   - ...

This is something I would really like to see. To me the purpose of glib
was always to be an "extension" of libc, i.e. it provides some fairly
low-level language-level stuff, that is mainly domain-unspecific.
Therefore I see the proliferation of desktop-specific stuff (i.e. at the
moment GBookmark, G_KEY_FILE_DESKTOP_*) in glib as rather critical.

 - Sebastian