Re: libgnome-desktop-2.0

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 07:41:51PM -0500, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > gnome-desktop is NOT frozen and won't be for the forseeable future.  The idea
> > behind this library is similar like behind gal and eel, it is a library where
> > new code is tested, before being put into one of the platform libraries.  Of
> > course this also means that you shouldn't depend on gnome-desktop lib unless
> > you are prepared to suffer the consequences (that is following a non-frozen
> > library).  Just making sure everyone is clear on that :)
> 
> another one ?  Any particular reason not to use one of the existing
> libs for that ?  Ideally there would be 1 staging library.

Well, gnome-desktop is mostly for gnome-core's internal use, but includes
things that may be useful to push into the lower libs at some point.  Having
this in gnome-core means that we can easily change it and fix gnome-core to
be all consistent without having to track and release gal or eel.
gnome-desktop is no place for things that aren't really useful in gnome-core
itself I don't think.

George

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