Re: Gratious dependencies added to gnome-core

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:

> Whilst not wishing to question the quality of the libwnck code, is this
> really a good idea? Until now, gnome-core has depended only on the
> platform libraries and there was a metric truckload of discussions about
> what went into that list and the support and stability requirements it
> entails. So is making gnome-core depend upon a relatively untested
> library a good idea or not?
>
> (I'm really looking for a sense of how Alex or Havoc feel about the
> code; if they both come and say it's fine and can be debugged in time
> for the release, then I am happy ... but I don't get that feeling yet.)
The libwcnk library is basically an updated version of the gwmh code 
used in 1.4, but for the 2.0 WM hints.  Putting it in a shared library 
is probably a good idea, so that the results of any polling can be 
shared by applets in the same address space (think tasklist, pager, menu 
on right hand side of foobar).  It should clearly be marked as a non 
platform library though (as libgtop is).

James.

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