Re: Eel merged into Nautilus 2.25.3

[Hubert Figuiere <hub figuiere net>]

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 19:43 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 
> I just released Nautilus 2.25.3 which contains an internalized copy of
> eel, and I don't plan to do any more eel releases. This lets the
> compiler do better optimizations and means one less library to link
> against.
> 
> Eel was always unsupported and shouldn't be used outside nautilus.
> However, some applications still does this. These apps will work
> against
> the last eel release, but should really work towards removing this
> dependency.

Or maybe work on moving the usefull features of EEL to Gtk+

Like the "application chooser". I have a patch for Firefox to use that
instead of the infamous file selector in /usr/bin. Actually one part was
copied from nautilus, the other linked against EEL.



Hub