[g-a-devel]Re: [G2R] Re: gail-1.0.pc.in

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Jody,

On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 10:25:01AM -0500, Michael Meeks wrote:
> >         I personaly feel it is a serious mistake to have gail anywhere
> > near the bottom of the stack here. In fact I think that we should do
the
> > following:
>
> Gail feels like a very similar problem to glade.  Can we not solve it
> the same way ?  Have the core of gail low in the heirarchy and have
> the modules above register gail extensions.

        Well - the way gail works is via GTK_MODULE hooks, and as such it
is somewhat difficult to load the modules efficiently. ie. there is AFAICS
no single entry point, or place where one can load auxilliary modules one
might need.

        I tend to think putting some hooks into the gnome_program_ stuff
might be very useful - so we don't setup accessibility for modules unless
we use them, also providing a good time to do some explicit loads of
accessibility modules - and perhaps hooking in at-bridge etc. - without
using the somewhat uncontrolled GTK_MODULES entry. - Of course, then we'd
need another env. var to conditionaly do that: GNOME_ACCESSIBILITY perhaps
or somesuch.

        Of course - perhaps I've misunderstood the design; but the
GTK_MODULEs thing seems rather limiting to me in terms of libglade like
flexibility. I think as a direction it might make a lot more sense to
utilize gnome-program, and leave GTK_MODULES env. vars for just that -
Gtk+ programs only.

        Regards,

                Michael.

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