Re: libgnomeoffice* status

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:52:21PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> >So, do we go on on sharing the plugin system?
> 
> From what I've read of the proposals, I've seen that the plugin system uses 
> GLib idle handlers. I can make all of Abi's platforms use GLib. However, 
> I'm not going to force them to start a main loop competing with their 
> native main loop just so they can use plugins.
> 
> I hope that I'm just not understanding something.

No plugin system will require the use of an idle handler.  It would
be an application level decision of when and how to initialize
things.  The only requirement is that it should be _possible_ to
delay the initialization, and to ensure that startup times are
minimally effected.

The charting engine does use idle handlers.  We'll need to abstract
that in some way if its to be embeddable in abiword.  However, I
doubt thats a pressing concern.