Re: My vision of gnome-libs (was Re: GNOME 2.0 meeting summary)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

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