Re: GnomeVFS backend for GtkFileChooser

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 15:48, Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 09:26, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > The foo/fooui library splits were done to allow apps to avoid relying on
> > > an X connection, or linking to all the X/GTK+ libs if they aren't GUI
> > > apps. But what we're talking about here has nothing to do with that.
> > > It's simply an issue of the build graph. And there are no requirements
> > > on the build graph other than "no cycles"
> > 
> > Really? How do you implement an interface without linking to the
> > library?
> > 
> > In particular, how would you call:
> >   g_type_add_interface_static (file_system_gnome_vfs_type,
> >                                GTK_TYPE_FILE_SYSTEM,
> >                                &file_system_info);
> > 
> > without linking to the library that defines gtk_file_system_get_type().
> > 
> > You can't. So, either:
> > a) gtk_file_system_get_type() goes in some lib below gtk+
> > b) gnome-vfs links to gtk+
> > c) the gnome-vfs implemenation of GtkFileSystem goes in libgnomeui
> > 
> > pick your poison.
> > 
> > Personally, I favour c.
> 
> gnome-vfs just builds a separate module and drops it into place; a
> different shared object.

I guess this works for me. Its a extra .so, but thats not too horrible.

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