Re: TODO #1: GNOME 1.x and 2.0 interoperability

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:

> Three things need to be done:
> 
> a) Make sure you can install GNOME 1.x and 2.0 under the same
>    prefix, currently this doesn't work.
> 
>    [Medium priority: blocks binary packages, but at the moment
>                      we aren't doing any binary packages and the
>                      vicious-build-scripts install everything into
>                      a different prefix anyways.]

This involves making the gnome-vfs branch.  Is now a good time for this
to happen?

> b) OAF - make sure than you can run GNOME 2 applications with
>          the GNOME 1.x oafd and vice-versa.
> 
>    [High priority: Blocks almost everything, especially testing on a GNOME 1.x
>                    desktop.]
> 
> c) GCONF - GConf is optional in GNOME 2 since we're using bonobo-config,
>            but it needs to be fixed anyways. At the moment, you cannot start
>            any GNOME 1.x applications while the GNOME 2 gconfd is running and
>            vice-versa.
> 
>    [Low priority: GConf is optional in GNOME 2 core libraries and this is no API
>                   critical bug.

Huh?  Why is GConf optional???  Surely most applications will want to
use it?  And what is bonobo config?

-Jonathan