Re: GObject memory statistics

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 7/17/06, Tommi Komulainen <tommi komulainen nokia com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 09:00 +0100, ext Ross Burton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-07-14 at 18:08 +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> > > I think we should really look what iconv() and _pthread_once() do,
> > > or get completely rid of iconv().  Currently it's needed for:
> > > - Converting window titles from utf8 to latin1
> > > - Converting png comment fields (containing hotspot etc info)
> > >   from latin1 to utf8
> > > - Doing filesystem file name conversions from/to latin1
> > >
> > >
> > > Update: In IT-2006 software the need for iconv() is removed.
> >
> > How do you remove iconv from the (say) window title utf-8 to latin1?
> > Did you implement a very simple converter (an almost-identity array
> > would be a quick and easy solution) inside GTK?  If so then I'd be
> > interested to see that upstreamed.
>
> By commenting out all legacy WM hints handling :)  I mean really,
> _NET_WM_NAME is now how old? In our case it makes absolutely no sense to
> use WM_NAME et. al., not sure it makes sense even on the GNOME desktop
> these days. And that's all it takes to drag in iconv. That and png
> comments.
>
> See the attached patch[1]. I'd give a viewcvs link but our viewcvs is
> apparently down.

If you change it to detect if the currently running window manager supports
_NET_WM_NAME, we may even do something like this upstream.