Life & hacking

Recently I hacked on the Anjuta toolbar system to split the big toolbars into several smaller ones. Of course the layout of those toolbars needs to be saved across sessions. This is not really difficult but I soon found me in the situation where I just scrolled around svn.gnome.org to find out what the methods in libbonoboui do because there is no real documentation.

The code is mostly clean and the functionality is also great but this seems one of the parts of GNOME that are not really maintained. I never found any notice that bonobo is deprecated so I guess other also find this useful. At least this is the easiest way to get plugable toolbars which are really useful for applications that provide a lot of toolbar buttons. Of course libbonoboui might be able to do much more, I just did not hit other parts yet.

So, what is the status of bonobo? Is there some roadmap and will it survive project ridley?