Re: libgnomeui geometry parsing problem

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org> writes: 
> Well, using XParseGeometry inside libgnomeui code is ok, but let's not start
> using it directly in any applications. This makes porting these application
> to other windowing systems (Mac OS X comes into my mind) much harder.
> 
> So there is a reason to keep the gnome_parse_geometry() function - however,
> of course we should fix / improve it for GNOME 2.0.
> 
> I haven't looked at this yet, but I think gnome_parse_geometry() should use
> XParseGeometry internally, but with an API which is not tied to the X server
> so that we can also implement this function for other windowing systems.
> 

There will be gtk_window_parse_geometry(), I have it on my local hard
disk. This will be portable to all window systems. Haven't checked it
in yet though.

Havoc