Re: Proposal GNOME Goal: Replace gnome_help and gnome-open calls with gtk_show_uri

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

I've added gtk_widget_get_screen to the example code

Jaap

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 23:54, Thomas H.P. Andersen <phomes gmail com> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 3:59 PM, Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Quite some people already are implementing this goal
>>
>> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/RemoveGnomeOpenGnomeHelp
>>
>> What about making it an official goal for GNOME 2.26?
>
> Would it make sense to have an official policy to accept goals
> proposed on d-d-l after a few days without protests? It seems to me
> that a lot of goals never took off because they were never officially
> blessed.
>
> Comments on the gnome help goal:
> We might as well set the screen correctly rather than just pass NULL.
> The goal might as well suggest to use gtk_widget_get_screen on the
> window to get the screen. The window is used later in the example
> anyway.
>
> This is the definition of the gnome goals taken from l.g.o/GnomeGoals:
> "Setting small concrete goals that we should all try to achieve could
> definitely help with our work in integration and consistency. The
> goals may vary a lot, don't need to be ambitious, don't need to be
> about code. But they need to be achievable in a small timeframe. They
> are the GNOME goals."
> In light of this I would suggest to narrow the scope of this
> particular goal to only handle modules using C. This would make it
> both more concrete and easier to achieve in a small timeframe.
>
> Lastly, while on the topic of gnome goals,  I hate the ambiguous "to
> do" status. Currently I am not able to tell if it means that no one
> has investigated if the module is affected by the goal or if it means
> that there is work to be done for that module.
>
> - thomas
>