Re: [gnome-love] Enhancement of the gnome-search-tool

[Christian Sasso <christian sasso gmail com>]

Hi Shaun,

these days, like most, I'm a bit busy planning my XMas
trip back to Europe, but with the new year, it will be my pleasure to
read the overview and let you know about it. Mind though that it has
been *years* since I wrote any Gnome related code (and I wasn't that
much of an expert even then).

Ciao, chris

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org> wrote:

On Fri, 2009-12-11 at 11:11 -0800, Christian Sasso wrote:
> Hi Murray,
>
> this looks like a good introductory page. I skimmed through it quickly
> and I noticed that at least sometimes even deprecated stuff is
> explicitly mentioned:
>
> [...] In previous versions of GNOME, the GnomeVFS library was used for
> access to files and folders. While GnomeVFS provided many of the same
> features, including transparent access to remote folders, it had a
> number of limitations which have been addressed in GIO. GnomeVFS is
> deprecated and should not be used in newly written code, although it
> will continue to be supported throughout the GNOME 2 lifetime. For
> information on GnomeVFS, see GnomeVFS - Filesystem Abstraction
> Library. [...]
>
> and about Printing:
>
> [...] Work is currently underway to integrate printing directly into
> GTK+, providing a cross-platform print API that all applications can
> use. While the current GNOME print framework will be deprecated once
> GTK+ supports printing, API and ABI stability guarantees ensures that
> it will continue to be functional and supported throughout the GNOME 2
> lifecycle. [...]
>
> But in general I agree that the page doesn't seem relentless in
> pointing out what NOT to use. For instance, the page links to
> documentation about Corba and Bonobo, that if I understand correctly,
> nobody should use anymore (I may be wrong: it has been a long time).

The Overview has, unfortunately, not been updated much
since I initially wrote it.  It's definitely due for an
overhaul, especially for Gnome 3.  I've been doing some
planning, but it hasn't hit the top of my todo list yet.

Christian, I'd be very interested in any other thoughts
you have after reading the Overview.  Reader feedback is
very helpful.

--
Shaun