Re: gnome-libs 2.0 API

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Murray Cumming wrote:

> Can someone give me a URL describing the planned changed to gnome-libs
> 2.0? Hopefully that's not a rhetorical question.
> 
> I've seen talk of.
> - Removing GnomeApp and GnomeMDI in favour of the (equally undocumented)
> B(b?)onobo APIs.
> - Adding some GAL/EEL widgets.
> 
> BUT I thought that we were just going to port gnome-libs to GTK 2.0, and
> split it into smaller libraries. I remember that someone in the audience
> at GUADEC 2 assured us that he was taking notes of the GNOME 2
> decisions, but I don't remember them being posted anywhere.
> 

The splitting to smaller libraries did happen, look into CVS (modules
libgnome, libgnomeui, etc.)

> Personally I'd like to remove the dodgy APIs and add any APIs that are
> definitely stable, but I can also see why we'd want to leave it until
> later.
> 

Send the patches proposals, survive the flamewar and convinve people to
put them in.

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	Sander,
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