Fine-grained gnome dependencies

Hi,

I'm wondering whether work towards more finely-grained gnome
dependencies would have a chance of being accepted into HEAD (since Dom
recently warned me not to touch the m4 macros).

What I'd like to have is the possibility of building against gnome-print
as the only dependency from the gnome lib stack. This would IMHO be a
good compromise between preserving valuable functionality and stripping
of things that are not needed as much. What I'm not yet sure about is
how code depending on gnome-canvas (like the toolbar colour dropdowns)
should be handeled. (gnome-print depends on gnome-canvas BTW)
Maybe we can resync that stuff with gnumeric, they should have a
gnome-less version of most things.

Proposal:
+ new: --enable-gnomeprint (auto, default=true), WITH_GNOMEPRINT
+ --enable-gnome will also set WITH_GNOMEPRINT
+ maybe implement a gnome-less version of the clipart dialog.

Why?
+ For people not having a full gnome installation it will be easier to
get a reasonably featurefull abiword running (e. g. by using the
autopackage).
+ Since nautilus doesn't do embedding any more the bonobo control
provides only limited extra functionality for normal users.

Please tell me if i'm getting important facts wrong.

Thanks for your comments,
- Rob
Received on Mon Feb 28 13:21:16 2005