On 7/12/06, Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/12/06, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 12 Jul 2006, at 08:56, Johan Svedberg wrote: > > > > > * Jul 12 02:21 Elijah Newren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > >> So, to start of the discussion, the proposed modules AFAIR are: > > >> * orca (as a replacement to gnopernicus) > > >> * alacarte > > >> * gnome-power-manager > > >> * Tomboy > > >> * Gtk# > > > > > > What about libnotify? It was proposed for 2.14 but rejected because of > > > lack of HIG-docs IIRC? > > > > Hmm, I don't remember that, but I hope that wasn't the only reason. > > The HIG's notification section is certainly very poor at the moment, > > but if there's a surefire way to get us to improve it, it's to > > include the technology in the core platform so we have to do > > something about it :) > > It was a worry, but the bigger issue was that it depended on libsexy > and lots of people didn't like the idea of adding another widget > library to Gnome when we were doing our best with project Ridley to go > in the opposite direction.
In order to get support for the widgets notification-daemon needs from libsexy into gtk or Ridley *properly*, GtkLabel, GtkEntry, etc. would need extensive modifications. libsexy "does naughty things to good widgets." It manipulates them in ways that ideally wouldn't have to be done. It works, but I wouldn't feel right trying to get those added to gtk/Ridley without GtkLabel and GtkEntry becoming more extensible. Unfortunately, that's a bigger task than I have time for. So given the things libsexy widgets do, I don't think it's too bad keeping them in their own library for now. It's a library that most distros now ship anyway, and does provide very useful functionality. Notification-daemon and libnotify are practically everywhere as well too. I would like to once again propose libnotify and notification-daemon for GNOME. I'm pretty sure it won't be accepted though because of the lack of a HIG (which could be written after it goes in, could it not?) and libsexy (which is maybe a bigger problem, but probably a necessary evil for now). If that's the case, it's a shame, because this is useful functionality for a lot of apps. I'd love to find a solution that most people are happy with. Christian _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
