Re: gnome-vfs circular build dependency

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:04:17AM +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 03:14, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 04:48, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > As noted in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134718 we now have
> > > a circular build dependency.
> > > 
> > > This is the new gnome-vfs backend module for the new gtk+ file selector.
> > > It uses libgnomeui for the gnome_icon_lookup function. The building of
> > > the filesel backend is optional, so you can still bootstrap, but you
> > > have to build gnome-vfs twice if you want to bootstrap from scratch and
> > > get the gtk module.
> > 
> > Ugh, I didn't consider this.  Many apologies.
> > 
> > Not being faimiliar with the icon code in libgnomeui or gtk+, is there a
> > difference between using gnome_icon_lookup vs. gtk_icon_theme?  E.g.
> > could we simply drop the former and just use the latter?
> 
> No. They are different things. gnome_icon_lookup goes from file -> icon
> name, and gtk_icon_theme goes from icon name -> pixbuf.

That piece of things looks like it could easily live in gnome-vfs.
The trickier bit is the use of the GnomeThumbnail