Re: GMenuModel has landed

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup canonical com>]

On 12/12/2011 03:24 AM, Matthew Brush wrote:
> On 12/11/2011 12:14 PM, Stefan Sauer wrote:
> > On 12/09/2011 01:00 AM, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> > > hi,
> > >
> > > Today I landed the GMenuModel work on glib master. A release will be
> > > following shortly.
> >
> > Just one quick question - why is this in GLib? Is that to allow
> > command-line apps to have a menu?
>
> I tried to ask this here a day or two ago but had problems, so I asked
> Ryan on IRC. The answer is that it's in GIO rather than GLib and there
> is precedence; GIcon for example.

In Ubuntu, at least, we have quite a few daemons that export menu-like 
constructs which is then rendered in another process (the shell). Think 
distributed model-view-controller where the models are these daemons. 
These daemons have no reason to link to libgtk* (and does not need an X 
connection etc).

(and these daemons happen to use loads of GIcons as well - I love how 
glib/gio separates abstract entities from the actual toolkit)

Cheers,
Mikkel