libsexy's widgets extends GTK+ widgets in uncommon ways. To get it
integrated into GTK+ properly, someone needs to get new signals and API into
GtkLabel, GtkEntry and some other widgets and then port these widgets over
in a more sane manner. I would love to do it one of these days, but work and
my personal life keeps me busy these days, and nobody else has volunteered
to help out with this.

I would love to see these widgets in GTK+ as well. In the meantime, though,
libsexy, like notification-daemon, is on practically every distro shipping
GNOME and is in a lot of GNOME apps as well. So my argument applies to it.

I'm not saying let's put this into the desktop right now. I think it just
makes sense to allow this to be an external dependency given how widespread
it is.

Christian


On 9/28/07, Martin Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Wasn't there a concern at one point about a libnotify dependency on
> libsexy? I thought the discussion had mentioned getting some of the
> libsexy widgets into gtk+, thus removing the dependency. Anyone else
> remember that or am I just crazy?
>
> /me goes off and searches...
>
> Yes! Just last month!
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-August/msg00000.html
> - the middle of a thread mentioning the dependency on libsexy. I would
> *love* to see notification-daemon make it as an official part of the
> desktop but what the libsexy dependency? Has there been any work on
> resolving that?
>
> - Martin
>
> On 9/28/07, Murray Cumming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 02:07 -0700, Christian Hammond wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > notification-daemon and libnotify are on every distro shipping GNOME,
> > > to my knowledge. Isn't it time to finally mark this as a blessed
> > > dependency? More and more apps are using this and it's become a de
> > > facto standard not only in GNOME but in practically anything not
> > > KDE-based, GTK+ or otherwise. It's only doing harm by preventing it
> > > from becoming a dependency, as it requires more work on the part of
> > > the developers to develop, test and support conditional code.
> >
> > This seems sensible. Are there really no other open issues about
> > libnotify? I guess that you should address the issues mentioned when
> > this was rejected for 2.20, though they seem rather vague to me:
> >
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/devel-announce-list/2007-August/msg00004.html
> >
> > By the way, I am disappointed at the lack of API documentation,
> > describing the "classes" and functions: I'm looking at this, for
> > instance:
> >
> http://www.galago-project.org/docs/api/libnotify/struct__NotifyNotification.html
> >
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