Re: GMenuModel has landed

[Matthew Brush <mbrush codebrainz ca>]

On 12/11/2011 12:14 PM, Stefan Sauer wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 01:00 AM, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > Today I landed the GMenuModel work on glib master.  A release will be
> > following shortly.
>
> Just one quick question - why is this in GLib? Is that to allow
> command-line apps to have a menu?

I tried to ask this here a day or two ago but had problems, so I asked 
Ryan on IRC. The answer is that it's in GIO rather than GLib and there 
is precedence; GIcon for example.

My (probably misguided) opinion is that if this type of stuff can't go 
into GTK+ for some reason, there should be a `glib-ui` or `glib-gnome` 
library or something like this.  I have doubts how many apps linking to 
GIO without GTK+ are going to need such a model, either because they 
don't have a UI at all or are using some other toolkit which likely 
provides a mechanism of its own for this.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush - Just some guy