Re: Remove libgnomeui where possible?

[Jani Monoses <jani monoses gmail com>]

> Sounds good in theory, *but* modules in libegg need an exit strategy 
> (ie. a lib that they are destined for). Code isn't meant to live in 
> libegg forever.

Of course not. Most are probably meant for GTK and in the Ridley wiki. 
But until a GTK+ version that contains all libgnomeui equivalents is 
released and GNOME apps converted to it, it would be nice to have some 
measurable memory reductions between GNOME releases as opposed to having 
to present performance improvements which affect only corner-cases (i.e 
gnome-terminal scrolling millions of lines of text faster than previously).

Also startup time is not to neglect, but I guess with much of our time 
spent in web-browsers we all got used to high latency and it is not 
surprising anymore that an app can easily take over a second to launch.

So the changes brought up here are less than ideal as they use copy 
pasted code, but they'd at least emphasize in each app which bits are 
still legacy or GNOME only instead of being spread all across it.

Since these can be done step by step they may make good candidates for 
GnomeGoals.

Last but not least it would be a diplomatic statement (for lack of 
better words) towards other GTK environments and developers (embedded, 
Xfce, XO) and would encourage cooperation in some areas as opposed to 
gratuitous duplication.

Jani