[Gaim-devel] Gnome 2.0 Applet stuff

[John P. <jo...@ma...>]

Hello,

I used to hack at Gaim's applet code way back before I got caught up in
other things (Yes I was the one who wrote the horribly long variables
and files names, I have since learned my lesson ;-)  Anyway, I was
looking at updating the applet stuff for Gnome 2.0.  Has anyone been
working on this?  I started working on it unfortunatly I can't compile
Gaim because I am working on a pure Gtk2.0/Gnome2.0 platform.  The m4
macros always choke.  As a start it doesn't realy matter since I have
already created most of the functionality of the old applet in a
seperate applet project with the one cavet that it is not hooked up with
Gaim yet.

I don't know if you guys plan on going completely Gtk+ 2.0 and ditch the
old 1.0 stuff but if you did it would be realy nice to ditch the old
model of hundreds of #ifdef's and instead go with a layered approach. 
In this way a core library (gaim-common) with hooks to get the Gtk-2.0
top level widgets would be used in conjunction with a stub loader.  The
stub loader would have the main Gtk+ event loop and simply call the
library to display the widget.  For those who want GNOME applet
functionality a seperate applet project, which is also a stub loader, 
would set itself up with the library, register a status
callback(signal/slot) with the library (for changing icons on the
applet) and let Gaim do its thing.  This would allow people to have just
the pure Gtk+ Gaim and get the applet if they want Gnome functionality. 
(This would also fix much of my Debain/Ximian conflicts which refuses to
install the gnome-gaim build without first ripping out the gaim build
and a lot of associated libraries in the process).

This is just a suggestion and I'm offering to help.  I realy want to get
to the point where I can just rely on Gnome2.0 as a stand alone desktop
and not have to rely on the 1.0 libraries.  I though Gaim would be a
cool first step.  Its up to you guys.  Thanks.

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J5