Re: Control Center Shell and libslab

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

Denis Washington wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Thomas Wood and I wrote a few patches for the new control center 
> shell(see 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnomecc-list/2006-November/msg00002.html). 
> Because 90% of the shell's internals are in libslab, the patches mainly 
> or only involve changes in that library. My question now is: should we 
> do this forking of SLAB (i guess at least my patch especially is one 
> that doesn't fit well with SLED but makes sense in the GNOME context)? 
> I'd say it would be best if we took the current libslab code and develop 
> it independently from the Novell SLAB; I see no other way to really 
> adjust the shell to our needs. But that's just my opinion, comments are 
> really welcome.

I spoke to Rodrigo and Seb about this briefly on IRC. Rodrigo also
suggested forking SLAB, but I would still like some feed back from the
current authors about their opinion. Seb is in favour of just going
ahead and making changes, since the code is now in GNOME cvs.

I've CC'd the authors libslab for their comments. If we don't get any
reply, I think we can assume they are not too concerned about what goes
on in gnome cvs.

With respect to your search entry patch, I think the libsexy changes are
nice, but unfortunately libsexy isn't part of the official module set,
so we can't definitely depend on it yet. An optional dependency might be
possible though.

-Thomas