Re: The removed bonobo_*_get_epv() and the changed bonobo_*_construct() (was Re: GNOME CVS: bonobo michael)

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes:

> On 6 Feb 2001, Martin Baulig wrote:
> > I'm a bit confused here.
> 
>         I'm sorry to hear that, let me explain:
> 
> > This change does not only break the freeze,
> 
>         The only application I am really interested in supporting is
> Nautilus, and none of these changes impact bin or source compat of
> Nautilus. Any Gnome 1.4 freeze is purely for Nautilus and Eazel, it is not
> for Eog :-)

Hi Michael,

of course I don't mind such changes in Bonobo, EOG isn't that complex that
this won't be fixable within a few hours.

>         I hope to have a frozen version of Bonobo for Gnome 1.4 out by
> this evening with this change pushed as far across bonobo as bin compat
> for Nautilus will allow me to go - this will allow me to move everything
> except:
>         
>         bonobo_stream_get_type  
>         bonobo_zoomable_get_type
>         bonobo_object_get_type
> 
>         to the new scheme, since they inherit from these internaly.
> 
>         Everything possible will move to BonoboXObject - similar to what   
> was aired for comment on the bonobo list several days ago.
> 
> > it also makes it impossible to create your own corba object which is a
> > subclass of Bonobo::Control.
> 
>         Not the case. You need to see how it is done in eg. bonobo-view.c
> which inherits from bonobo-control.c in this way - it is now extremely   
> simple, you should find yourself removing lots of ugly complex CORBA code.

Woah! That sounds great, dude !

I already fixed EOG yesterday and all I did was really just removing a lot of
ugly CORBA code. I was just concerned that we won't be able to subclass the
Bonobo::Control corba object anymore, but if this isn't the case, this is
really excellent news since it simplifies things a lot.

> > Why was this done, btw. ?
> 
>         BonoboXObject is more elegant, simple, efficient etc. etc. and
> significantly lowers the barrier for CORBA hacking over Gtk+
> hacking. Miguel and I believe it is very important in making Bonobo
> usable, this is why it has got in so late in the day.

I should really have a look at this stuff :-)

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