Re: Re: Feature proposal

2008/9/5 Duncan <[email protected]>

> There's no support for it yet.
>
> Charles hasn't seemed to interested in it in the past, I believe because
> integrating it would require additional GNOME dependencies and he prefers
> to stay with GTK-only dependencies.
>
> He's right.  Take me, for instance, I'm a KDE person, I don't have GNOME
> installed and don't want it installed!  Knowing you're going to be
> compiling every update has a way of encouraging what's good safe
> computing practice anyway, don't have installed what you don't need! =:^)
>

I'm not sure, but I believe that the notification area of gnome follows the
freedesktop standard tightly, an implementation in it would allow the
same notification area to work on kde/other systems.
About the dependencies we could tailor the configure script to compile
with/without
the feature.


> But I'd absolutely love to have it here, if it didn't introduce
> additional dependencies, and if it degraded gracefully if necessary with
> older GTK versions.  That's a stiff order, but with all the functionality
> in newer GTKs, it just might be possible.
>
> While you're at it or if that's still not easily done, consider working
> on a patch to add printer support using the newer GTK functionality.  I
> KNOW that's in new GTKs, and Charles wants it back in newer pan, but last
> he said anything about it probably ~18 months ago, he didn't think the
> GTK printing support was mature enough yet, and didn't want to break
> backward compatibility but didn't want to hassle writing it up to
> properly degrade gracefully, either.  But I'm quite sure he'd take a
> patch implementing it, if one were handed to him that filled those
> conditions, and unlike the notification/tray area, I KNOW GTK supports
> printing now.  And it's a reasonably often requested feature, too, so if
> you're up to it... =:^)


This sounds interesting and useful, I'm looking for anything to code at the
moment, so I
might just do that, still I need to learn a lot, don't know anything about
the subject.



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