Comments on: Toolbars without bonobo?

By: Alan

Alan — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 02:42:34 +0000

> Of course HIG-fetishists will say that they are overkill

I for one like the more advanced toolbars – as someone who might be considered a strong advocate of the HIG – but without a consistent GTK level implementation it would be irresponsible to advocate them, especially not the Bonobo implementation. Bonobo is and was terrible overkill for so many things and as far as I’m concerned CORBA is a symptom of coporate inability to cooperate at a library level which is something Gnome manages quite often (but not quite often enough).

By: scott

scott — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:29:15 +0000

If you are developing in Gtk# you can use MonoDevelop’s DockToolbar implementation done by Lluis:

http://svn.myrealbox.com/viewcvs/trunk/monodevelop/Core/src/MonoDevelop.Components/MonoDevelop.Components.DockToolbars/

By: Philip Langdale

Philip Langdale — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 15:53:37 +0000

It’s not a completely serious suggestion, but there is a toolbar dock widget in libegg. It basically works but it’s now completely unmaintained as far as I can tell, so no one is trying to push it for Ridley.

By: fraggle

fraggle — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:42:58 +0000

You don’t really need the entirety of Bonobo and its CORBA foundations just to do dockable toolbars

By: elmarco

elmarco — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:42:58 +0000

Johannes,
if you manage to reach a better status quo about bonobo, please update http://live.gnome.org/DoYouKnow?highlight=%28bonobo%29.
(btw, it would be nice to provide an english registration process in order to put comments)

By: murrayc

murrayc — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:28:32 +0000

> bonobo will be deprecated in GNOME 2.18

That’s an oversimplification. The page I pointed to stated that it will be deprecated in future, not specifically for 2.18.