Re: libgnomeui geometry parsing problem

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

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> 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.

Oh, that's good news.

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