Re: gtk_show_help and gtk_show_url

[Johan Dahlin <johan gnome org>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had a random thought at the summit; what if we add a new library in 
> the stack (perhaps shipping with GLib or GTK tarball, I don't know). 
> Call it libgapplication. It would contain:
>
>   - GApplication
>   - GSettings
>   - dbus main loop hooks
>   - ...

Session management?

> It would depend on GObject, dbus, gvfs, dconf but be below GDK, Cairo, 
> and Pango (i.e. no graphics).

Do we want to push other parts of what we have in GTK+ today "down" to that 
library?

> I guess this is a direct analog of libgnome, really.
>
> Maybe a bad idea; we can cram all this stuff elsewhere, either in GTK or 
> in dbus or in gvfs.

Not necessarily a bad idea, at least as long as a CORBA and Bonobo 
dependency can be avoided, which I hope is not planned.

Johan