[g-a-devel]Re: extensivle accessibility modules.

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

Michael Meeks wrote:
...

>         Sure - anything that only has a gtk+ dependency needs to be in
> gail - but I think other things - need to be dynamicaly loaded as needed.
> Otherwise - we pull in lots of libraries we don't need every time we run a
> gtk+ app eg. [libbonoboui, libgnomeui, eel, gal etc.] - of course - quite
> correct, one can change GTK_MODULES to contain different things before
> running each app - but this is a non-solution; which user knows he has to
> edit an env-var to enter the deps of the program he's about to run :-)

I agree 100% where libs like libbonoboui, gal, eel, are concerned.  I am
not as worried about libs that are "core" gnome-2 already, but still we
shouldn't pull in too much code unnecessarily.

>         I think we should be looking at getting some g_module hooks into
> gnome_program ASAP. Anders - I'll have a look at hacking this today; does
> it sound ok to you ? Of course - the easiest solution for now is to pull
> the gtkhtml2 API down the stack - to underneath gail - which seems all we
> can do for the beta.
> 
>         Regards,
> 
>                 Michael.
> 
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