Re: Remove libgnomeui where possible?

[Jani Monoses <jani monoses gmail com>]

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? :-)
>
> Thanks for any feedback,
>
> Richard
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399818

I've updated the above patch to only contain the non-invasive part, and also filed
similar ones against screensaver and nm-applet:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436818
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436832

with these applied the above apps only have gnome_program_init() from libgnome, and
according to Fernando Herrera bug-buddy will probably be available via GTK_MODULES in 2.20
so the only reason for not using gtk_init() will disappear.

comments are welcome
Jani