Re: Ungnomifying the control center

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 11:50 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Le vendredi 24 octobre 2008, à 07:51 +0200, Soeren Sandmann a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > With the new cut-and-pasted code in gnome-desktop, it looks like it's
> > almost possible to stop linking to libgnome and libgnomeui in the
> > control center. The main things I don't know how to fix are the shell
> > (which is not used by default) and the use of GnomeClient to put a
> > log-out button in one of the accessibility dialogs. Also, the font
> > viewer uses gnome_icon_lookup_sync(), and I don't immediately see a
> > replacement in GIO.
> 
> You can use the gnome-session dbus methods to logout instead of using
> GnomeClient (look at gnome-session/tools/gnome-session-save.c for an
> example).
> 
> It might make sense to stop shipping the shell, since we've never really
> used it in upstream GNOME -- don't know what people think, though.
> 
yeah, probably until there are speed issues with it, it's hard to get it
as the default way of accessing the control center, so yes, probably we
should just disable it by default
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>