Re: TODO #1: GNOME 1.x and 2.0 interoperability

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth Sun COM>]

(bonobo-conf is a GConf wrapper)

FYI, Havoc and/or I will take a look at the GConf 1.x/2.0 interoperability
issue mentioned below next week; follow-ups with fix/workaround details
will go to gnome-2-0-list and gconf-list.

BTW, I'd like to send on some thoughts about a proposed core schema
for GConf-configured GNOME applications; more to follow... ;)

Colm.

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>Subject: Re: TODO #1: GNOME 1.x and 2.0 interoperability
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>Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes:
>
>> Three things need to be done:
>> 
>> a) Make sure you can install GNOME 1.x and 2.0 under the same
>>    prefix, currently this doesn't work.
>> 
>>    [Medium priority: blocks binary packages, but at the moment
>>                      we aren't doing any binary packages and the
>>                      vicious-build-scripts install everything into
>>                      a different prefix anyways.]
>
>This involves making the gnome-vfs branch.  Is now a good time for this
>to happen?
>
>> b) OAF - make sure than you can run GNOME 2 applications with
>>          the GNOME 1.x oafd and vice-versa.
>> 
>>    [High priority: Blocks almost everything, especially testing on a GNOME 
1.x
>>                    desktop.]
>> 
>> c) GCONF - GConf is optional in GNOME 2 since we're using bonobo-config,
>>            but it needs to be fixed anyways. At the moment, you cannot start
>>            any GNOME 1.x applications while the GNOME 2 gconfd is running and
>>            vice-versa.
>> 
>>    [Low priority: GConf is optional in GNOME 2 core libraries and this is no 
API
>>                   critical bug.
>
>Huh?  Why is GConf optional???  Surely most applications will want to
>use it?  And what is bonobo config?
>
>-Jonathan
>
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