Re: gnome-libs 2.0 API

[Bob Smith <bob thestuff net>]

Wouldnt GTK 2.0 be a much better place for a widget like that then in
bonobo? I dont think there is anything inharently bonobo spacific in the
widget, and it is quite usefull in non gnome apps as well.

On 23 Jun 2001 15:07:07 +0200, Martin Baulig wrote:
> Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com> writes:
> 
> > > Basically we can do the same as with GnomeDock: move GnomeMDI to libcompat
> > > and deprecate it and develop a new BonoboMDI.
> > 
> >   Ah-hah.  I didn't know GnomeDock was deprecated.
> 
> Dude, you're confused.
> 
> GnomeDock is deprecated, that's true.
> 
> BonoboDock is exactly the same code than GnomeDock, just with another name
> and ported to GTK+ 2.0. When I moved GnomeDock into libcompat and deprecated
> it I actually talked with Michael about making GnomeDock a set of #defines,
> but then we decided to leave the old GnomeDock implementation in libcompat so
> that we can more easily change the new BonoboDock if necessary.
> 
> So if you're using GnomeDock in your application, do a
> 
>         s/GnomeDock/BonoboDock/g;
>         s/gnome_dock/bonobo_dock/g;
> 
> and you're done.
> 
> >   What is the reason for this?
> 
> The reason was that GnomeDock was in libgnomeui, but we didn't want to make
> libbonoboui depend on libgnomeui. So we moved GnomeDock to bonoboui and renamed
> it.
> 
> >   The Bonobo interface doesn't let you do everything GnomeDock does.
> > And even if it did, I think it still makes sense to have access to the
> > actual widgets in case you want to do different, non necessarily
> > Bonobo-related things.
> 
> The code is still there, just with another name .....
> 
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> Martin Baulig
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