Re: New modules in 2.14

[Davyd Madeley <davyd madeley id au>]

On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 22:56 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:

> > So, I'm going a bit off-topic here, but I'm curious: what are these
> > metacity python bindings for?
> 
>   They wrap libmetacity-private.  I think Johan wants to draw windows
> inside a scrolled window in Gazpacho GUI builder, and that library
> supposedly allows one to use metacity's rendering engine to immitate
> metacity frames.  But I gues you already know this better than me :)
> That's all I know about the bindings and the library, I'm afraid.
> 
>   I hope this is not a problem?..  libmetacity-private is a library
> installed by a desktop module, hence it belongs in gnome-python-desktop,
> I think.  These bindings were added before API/feature freeze.  And I do
> expect to keep full control in the future of which bindings are added to
> gnome-python-desktop as long as they wrap libraries of desktop modules.

Given the name "libmetacity-private", I don't think it's a good idea to
be shipping public bindings to it. I don't think you could rely on this
library to remain API stable. Of course, Elijah would have a better idea
of this. Perhaps the solution is to create a libmetacity that use
functions people may need to use, and a libmetacity-private to do
whatever it is doing now.

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