Hello Jeremy, can we please have a list of _all_ libraries that you want to drop?
I just went through porting this package to gsettings just to see that there is now another dependency which should go away, and in this case it is probably impossible, because the interface is build around glade2 and from personal experience I know that moving the interface definitions files to glade3 syntax is not a simple translation. Also with amide there was the discussion about gnome-canvas. many thanks, Gert