Re: gcompletion depreciated?

[Jon Trowbridge <trow ximian com>]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 04:57:29PM -0400, Owen Taylor wrote:
> The rational would be that it is insufficiently general to be worth having
> in a library like GLib - more documentation / maintenance overhead than
> would be saved by avoiding people reduplicating it.
> 
> But, since it seems to be used in various places, (gdm, GNOME run dialog,
> galeon), sure, we can not deprecate it.

I have written some (much more general) general completion stuff which
is in GAL.  It is used by Evolution for address completion.

It doesn't seem (to me, at least) worth having something like that in
glib, but this code could be cleaned up and moved into gnome-libs.

-JT