Re: libgnome-desktop API addition request

[Luis Villa <luis villa gmail com>]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 17:15:12 +0000, Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 10:45 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:34:32 +1100, Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org> wrote:
> > > <quote who="Mark McLoughlin">
> > >
> > > > I think its worthwhile to get this in for 2.8. We understand the 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.
> > >
> > > This is worth it for the fix. It is quite disconcerting (and will cause huge
> > > bugzilla outcry) to have Nautilus windows opening up behind everything else,
> > > and so on.
> > >
> > > (Not a patch confirmation. Needs technical review.)
> >
> > Agreed on the analysis. I'm not sure ATM that there are many people on
> > the release team who can do the actual technical review, though? Can
> > we just say 'mark and elijah have read it, and nautilus will use it
> > ASAP', and let it go?
> 
>         Okay, I've gone ahead and committed.

With my QA hat on, when do you expect the changes to the other modules to land?

And with my general purpose hat on- will this make a gnome-open fix
possible as well? I just noticed that that is busted as well, but
doesn't seem to be in your list of things that will be impacted by
this.

Luis