Re: Branch for 2.30?

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 11:23 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 09:05 +0100, Thomas Wood wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 23:58 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > 
> > > FWIW, I still didn't get an answer on what to do for:
> > > - external capplets (no way to merge those into control-center,
> > > realistically)
> > 
> > There is a new library, libgnome-control-center-extension, which can be
> > used to implement a panel. I do want to revise the API here and change
> > anything that doesn't make sense.
> > 
> > > - external capplets that aren't written in C
> > 
> > I don't really have an answer here. If it's really important that we
> > support non-C settings panels, then we will need to look at switching to
> > a different extension approach, such as libpees.
> > 
> can't we have introspection for libgnome-control-center-extension so
> that capplets not written in C can use the bindings?

That's no use if the non-C GIO extension points aren't getting loaded.
You'd need Python/Vala/whatever support in the control-center. Did we
really mean to go down that route?