Re: Proposed new API for libgnomeui

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes:

> On 17 Sep 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> writes: 
> > > Andersca is interested in getting this into libgnomeui. We would need to 
> > > move GnomeIconLoader from gnome-desktop to avoid dependency loops too.
> > > Comments on this API?
> > > 
> > 
> > Do we expect general-purpose apps to use this, or only Nautilus and
> > the file selector backend?
> 
> I'm not sure. I expect some other apps will use it, but I can't think of 
> any good examples right now. Other file managers perhaps, image viewers 
> could use the thumbnailing. 

The find-file dialog, the recently-used menu, and custom file dialogs
for office apps might all use this.  I think this code is useful enough
for inclusion in a generic library.

Thanks,
-Jonathan