Re: [gedit-list] Bonobo usage in Gedit

[Paolo Maggi <paolo maggi polito it>]

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 13:17 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope this is the correct place to talk about developing gedit, if not
> please let me know.

Sure, it is.

> I decided to look around gedit, and maybe start hacking it, 

Great! 

> and I
> noticed that it uses Bonobo. Bonobo is still a bit of black magic to me,
> so I was wondering what it is used for in gedit?

It is used in gedit for two reasons:
- managing menus and toolbar
- to always have a single istance of gedit 

We would like to remove Bonobo from gedit in the next developer version (see also our wiki pages).

For managing menus and toolbars we now have a better solution in gtk+.
And d-bus can be used for obtaining the "single instance" magic 
(even if bonobo now provides a better method respect to the one we are using)

Regards,
Paolo

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