gnome_client and project ridley

[Jani Monoses <jani monoses gmail com>]

Hello

there's a gnome bug [1] concerning the possible replacement of 
GnomeClient as part of Project Ridley.
The libgnome page in the wiki [2] has the following interesting
bit:

'But my view is that GNOME should drop XSMP entirely and just have a 
"startup programs" folder and dbus services. -hp'

what is the current thinking on this matter? The bug has a more 
ambitious goal than just replacing the gnome client API from what I see
as it covers saving widgets and windows status not just application 
parameters traditionally (?) saved as part of the session.

Right now there are quite a few gnome apps which of the Gnome APIs only 
use gnome_client, but get linked to all the libraries because of this 
dependency.

thanks
Jani

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79285
[2] http://live.gnome.org/LibgnomeMustDie