Re: Broken i18n and the new UI handler.

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Federico Mena Quintero <federico helixcode com> writes: 
> > Even if you had the nice menu merging abstraction, it would still not
> > be trivial.
> > 
> > For example, right now it is very simple to export a widget as a
> > Bonobo control.  You just do
> > 
> > 	GtkWidget *my_widget;
> > 	BonoboControl *control;
> > 
> > 	my_widget = gtk_my_widget_new ();
> > 
> > 	control = bonobo_control_new (my_widget);
> > 	if (!control) {
> > 		g_message ("Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeek");
> > 		exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
> > 	}
> >
> 
> But this doesn't do menu merge. If we put this stuff we're discussing
> in GTK+ then it would, so for many controls (all panel applets for
> example) this would be all you need to do to get the menu stuff.
> 
> Yeah it's still useful to have an application-specific IDL sometimes,
> but it may as well be simple to do the basic widget embedding
> nonetheless.

And note, that you could automatically export the widget's
properties as a BonoboPropertyBag.
                                        Owen