Re: Moving useful stuff into the core toolkit (Was Re: Removing libgnome* from nautilus)
- From: Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>
- To: David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org, nautilus-list <nautilus-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Moving useful stuff into the core toolkit (Was Re: Removing libgnome* from nautilus)
- Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:55:44 +0200
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 09:46 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > >
> > > Hopefully this shouldn't be to much work. I'll start today with
> > > commiting a removal of the last use of bonobo (we currently use it for
> > > "unique application" functionallity).
> >
> > Cool. As a kinda related question what are your thoughts on moving some
> > of the more useful GIO-related UI classes (NautilusOpenWithDialog for
> > example) into GTK+? I can see stuff like that being useful in Evolution,
> > Firefox, Epiphany etc.
>
> All the code in nautilus depends on the nautilus core async i/o file
> model, so its kinda hard to move anywhere without moving most of
> nautilus. That model is also kind of strict and does not match what many
> apps want to do, so I don't think its generally doable.
Actually, the given example (open with dialog) doesn't do much I/O, and
is nowadays mostly a gui for pure gio operations, so it might well be
separable without much work.
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