Re: How do we want the different parts to integrate (Was Re: What goes in gnome

[Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Rodrigo Moya wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 18:45, Jody Goldberg wrote:
> > 
> > I'm in the midst of working on the successor to libole.  It will
> > support ole and the OO zip format.  With that in place and the
> > ability to just display embedded windows we are most of the way
> > there.  Things like menu/toolbar merging can also be done at a
> > slower pace.
> > 
> I think that's (embedding windows) the level of usage of Bonobo we need,
> and for that task it is simply the best option.
> 
> I don't think we should now integrate Bonobo in the core of all GO
> applications. We can just do wrappers for the functionality in those
> apps that export that functionality via Bonobo. So, when running the app
> in standalone mode, the Bonobo stuff wouldn't even be started. It could
> even be just a separated process/shared library, not the actual GO app's
> process.
> 

I agree with this. It doesn't even need to be this complicated. Just query
the command line arguments passed in by oaf to decide if you want to run
various branches of the code. 

Cheers

Martin