Re: Plans for 2.20

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 20:12 +0100, Jens Granseuer wrote:
> On 07.03.2007 19:41, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> > > > > > I was thinking on structuring the different subsystems in g-s-d to be
> > > > > > more pluggable. That would allow 3rd party apps to install modules to be
> > > > > > started with g-s-d. That would help in cleaning up the code, quite messy
> > > > > > in some places right now. What do you think?
> > > 
> > > Wouldn't implementing the separate domains in g-s-d as independent modules
> > > make optimizations such as those mentioned above (both xrdb and
> > > gdk_window_add_filter) impossible? That separation is the reason why those
> > > multiple xrdb calls exist in the first place.
> > > 
> > the reason of those xrdb calls being in 3 places is bad planning, and
> > the result of adding code as it's needed, which has resulted in the mess
> > that g-s-d is today. So, with good planning and structuration, it
> > shouldn't matter what we use, provided we implement the things
> > correctly.
> 
> My point being, if those modules are independent of each other, you can't
> do much "planning and structuration" to avoid those kinds of things.
> 
they are really not independent, they all are dealing with X settings,
so they would make more sense in a xsettings module than in 3 separate
ones, one for xsettings, another for xrdb and another for fonts
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Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>