Re: My vision of gnome-libs (was Re: GNOME 2.0 meeting summary)
- From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- To: Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>
- Cc: Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>, gnome-hackers gnome org
- Subject: Re: My vision of gnome-libs (was Re: GNOME 2.0 meeting summary)
- Date: 16 Feb 2001 11:30:51 -0500
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org> writes:
> one of the most important, IMO, compatibility layer that should be
> provided is the gnome_config stuff,
> which, AFAIK, is being used everywhere. GConf API and gnome_config are
> almost identical, with few exceptions, and a mapping between them should
> be very easy to do (in fact, I did this once for gnome-db when we were
> supporting both gnome_config and GConf, and it was really easy to do).
> New stuff in GConf, such as notifications, won't be a problem since this
> is not used in gnome_config-based apps.
>
> And this could remain for ever in gnome-libs, as it's more a wrapper
> than a compatibility layer.
This is a mistake - if you just "use GConf behind gnome_config" you
don't gain anything, because you aren't using any GConf features, and
you create instability and break e.g. desktop file parsing.
Havoc
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