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List:       gtk-devel
Subject:    Re: GMenuModel has landed
From:       Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup () canonical ! com>
Date:       2011-12-12 12:08:32
Message-ID: 4EE5EEC0.3050009 () canonical ! com
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On 12/12/2011 03:24 AM, Matthew Brush wrote:
> On 12/11/2011 12:14 PM, Stefan Sauer wrote:
>> On 12/09/2011 01:00 AM, Ryan Lortie wrote:
>>> hi,
>>>
>>> Today I landed the GMenuModel work on glib master. A release will be
>>> following shortly.
>>
>> Just one quick question - why is this in GLib? Is that to allow
>> command-line apps to have a menu?
>>
>
> I tried to ask this here a day or two ago but had problems, so I asked
> Ryan on IRC. The answer is that it's in GIO rather than GLib and there
> is precedence; GIcon for example.

In Ubuntu, at least, we have quite a few daemons that export menu-like 
constructs which is then rendered in another process (the shell). Think 
distributed model-view-controller where the models are these daemons. 
These daemons have no reason to link to libgtk* (and does not need an X 
connection etc).

(and these daemons happen to use loads of GIcons as well - I love how 
glib/gio separates abstract entities from the actual toolkit)

Cheers,
Mikkel
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