Re: Remove libgnomeui where possible?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 11:25 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 11:17 +0000, Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 11:08 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > A bug [1] has been opened recently for gnome-power-manager which removes
> > > the use of libgnomeui which reportedly makes the applications startup
> > > quicker (as about 25 less libraries are loaded) and use a lot less
> > > memory. I've not tested this myself, so this may be wildly inaccurate.
> > > 
> > > Now, while the rest of the patch is hardly invasive, replacing
> > > gnome_program_init with gtk_init removes bug buddy support and maybe
> > > other stuff I'm not aware of. I think gnome-power-manager needs bug
> > > buddy integration, so this might be the killer of this patch.
> > > 
> > > So the real question is, do we really need to load the whole of the
> > > giant libgnomeui just to integrate with bug buddy and open a yelp file?
> > > Is using libgnomeui essentially cost-free if it's being used by other
> > > open programs? Should libgnomeui be chopped into smaller pieces? Am I
> > > asking too many questions? :-)
> > 
> > It's not that tricky to copy and paste the libgnomeui code that handles
> > sigsegv and calls bug-buddy, the code is pretty small.  I'd do that.
> > Maybe GTK+ should have a hook for a process to call on sigsegv...
> 
> That's obviously the right thing to do. Same goes for Help support.
> 
yeah, those are the things that make lots of sense for my GtkDesktop
object:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305688
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>