[ghemical-devel] Compilation Errors / Autoconf Check

[Tommi Hassinen]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2004, Michael Banck wrote:

> I got the impression that bonobo is rather getting phased out by the
> GNOME people, e.g. bonobo controls for nautilus seem to be discouraged
> these days. Having a component system is a nice idea, but just doing it
> for one application does not make much sense, there should be a much
> bigger picture being aimed at. gchempaint interoperability seems to be
> there at least partially (haven't checked) though.

Hi,

interoperability with gchempaint would be a fine goal. I have also had a
goal of adding spreadsheet capabilities into ghemical, using the gnumeric
spreadsheet program as a bonobo component. A year ago I could not make
this work even in a small example program if I remember correctly.  :(

> > Then an another option could be to convert the v2.00 into a gtk2
> > program (if there seems to be no advantage in gnome2 libs). I see that
> > gtk2 has advantage of being much easier to port than gnome2.
>
> Porting ghemical to gtk2 looks like a reasonable first step, but it would
> sadden me to see the GNOME part being dropped alltogether.

Yep, I agree. I guess we have to evaluate the bonobo-status later.

Regards,

	Tommi