Re: gnome-properties.

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

fflewddur <fflewddur dropline net> writes:
> i've started porting the multiload applet to gnome 2, but i'm running
> into a rather large problem with the way it handles internal data.  it
> uses the old gnome-properties interface, which appears to have been
> depreceated after gnome 1.0.  i was going to migrate all of this data to
> a local structure, but its tightly integrated into its preferences
> dialog.  is there a sucessor to gnome-properties i should be converting
> this to, or do i simply scrap the properties code and create a new
> preferences dialog from scratch as well as a new internal data
> structure?
> 

Current opinion is that you should do an "instant apply" properties
dialog. gconf/examples/basic-gconf-app.c has an example.

The UI guys haven't decided on what buttons the dialog should have
yet, but it will be either OK, Done, or no button, I think, and in all
those cases you should simply do nothing when the window is closed
(since you will have already instant-applied as soon as widgets were
changed).

Havoc