Re: libgnome-desktop API addition request

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 09:45 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:28:54 +0000, Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com> wrote:
> > Hey,
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >         I think its worthwhile to get this in for 2.8. We understand the
> 
> 2.10?
> 
> > problem here very well and its very, very unlikely to turn out to be the
> > wrong API. The patch itself is small and unlikely to cause regressions
> > itself. Also, libgnome-desktop is only used by a very small number of
> > apps and isn't part of the platform.
> 
> So why are approvals needed then?  I thought approvals API
> additions/changes were only needed for the developer platform and
> bindings.  Was I mistaken?

	I thought it applies to libraries in the Desktop too. And I think it
makes sense if it does too ...

> Two comments on the patch.  If an app doesn't call
> gnome_desktop_item_set_launch_time(), then item->launch_time will be
> uninitialized giving random results.  I believe it needs to be
> initialized in gnome_desktop_item_new().

	g_new0() :-) It'd be no harm to explicitly initialize it, I guess.

> Also, what's up with this change in the patch? :
>  /*
> -* Clearing attributes
> + * Clearing attributes
>   */
> You dinged me in reviewing my patch that had that same spurious change.  ;-)

	Because you pointed out that it was intentional :)

Mark.