Re: [g-a-devel] GnomeClient replacement?

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 7/26/06, Fernando Herrera <fherrera onirica com> wrote:
> Humm I'm seeing a problem here. What about GNOME/GTK+ applications
> launched  outside a gnome-session? (for example people using KDE).
>
> They won't get the gtk-modules XSETTING and then they won't be accesible at all.
>
> I guess that the solution that Kristian pointed (gtk loading auto
> loading "runtime modules"  provided by the platform) may solve this
> problem:
>
> - gtk_init --> load_init_modules:
>    - gnome a11y module --> Check a11y gconf key --> load gail and friends
>    - bug-buddy module --> install segv handler.
>
> the downside of this method is that if we have installed gnome a11y
> modules then we are adding a little bit of overhead to only-gtk
> applications (loading gnome-module because it is installed, loading
> gconf, checking a11y).

GTK+ programs running outside a session can either fall back to the
GTK_MODULES envvar or use an xsettings manager even if they
are running under, say, KDE. That was the initial idea of xsettings
anyway, and I believe there is a xsettings manager for KDE that
some distributions use.

Matthias