Re: [g-a-devel]patch for gnopernicus; gnome-speech IDL change

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

Hi Bill,

On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 12:23, Bill Haneman wrote:
> I have just committed a patch to gnome-speech which fixes a problem with
> installation of the IDL files.  In the process (and with Marc's OK) I
> changed the interface name to omit the "GNOME" prefix, to bring it in
> line with other IDL (since SynthesisDriver.idl was not actually in the
> GNOME module).

	That sucks. The correct thing to do is to namespace it properly, inside
a registered namespace, in accordance with the namespacing guidelines
and accepted practice.

> An alternative would be to reinstate the "GNOME" prefix in gnome-speech,
> put gnome-speech's "Speech" IDL namespace under the "GNOME" module, and
> change its other clients back.

	Which is the correct approach.

>  However the "GNOME" module seems to be
> reserved for things like gnome-panel which are actually part of the
> desktop, rather than for general-purpose services, so I think the change
> made to gnome-speech was the preferred one.

	That should not be the case, at all. All Gnome components should use
GNOME_ as the prefix wherever possible. Nautilus and GConf didn't do it
right because of maintainer issues. Accessibility grabbed it's own
namespace for inter-project reasons. But gnome-speech should be in the
Gnome namespace, and not polluting the global space, and/or doing it's
own thing.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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