Re: [patch] pluggable property dialog pages

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 25 Oct 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi James,
> 
> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 18:56, James Willcox wrote:
> > > Michael said on irc that changing the view creation to use the async 
> > > NautilusView control activation functions might be good. He also suggested 
> > > that maybe we should use plain Bonobo components instead of NautilusViews, 
> > > which might make sense.
> > 
> > Yeah, I think using async activation is definitely a good idea.  I am
> > not sure why we wouldn't want to use NautilusView though.
> 
> 	It's far heavier, and we only want 1 method 'setURI' :-) in general
> it's good to have less complexity IMHO.

I agree with this.
 
> 	We should also use a property on it 'URI' or something, and we should
> set that asynchronously too; there is a method in
> eel/eel-gnome-extensions.[ch] that sets a property asynchronously - I'd
> very much appreciate someone making up a patch to merge that into
> libbonobo for 2.2.

Yes. I'd love for someone to systematically go over the eel extensions and 
move over stuff to bonobo/gnome-vfs/libgnome etc, and then remove them 
from eel. There are lots of small utility functions in eel that just plain 
make programming in gnome nicer.

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