GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 349281
Help kill libegg
Last modified: 2006-09-24 02:02:03 UTC
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #349256 +++ Please help kill libegg. Your module contains some egg code that is now deprecated thanks to new features, most probably the new GTK+ 2.10 features like: + GtkRecent* (deprecating EggRecent) + GtkStatusIcon (deprecating EggTrayIcon and EggStatusIcon) + GtkCellRendererAccel (deprecating EggCellRendererKeys) + GtkAccelGroup now has features to deprecate EggAccelerator (see bug 85780) Also, egg-screen-exec stuff has been deprecated: see http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/libegg/libegg/screen-exec/README Also, EggIconList has become GtkIconView in GTK+ 2.6.
What? We do not link libegg. We do have some included libegg code. although I am not sure to what extent it is used. But until GtkRecent makes it into gtk+ 2.6 I do not see much choice. So, what's the point of this bug?
It's not about linking to libegg (which is not possible). The goal is to stop the egg* files proliferation: everybody is copying them, modifying them, etc. So this is a bug to remind you that when possible, you should stop using egg files and move to the gtk+ widgets/objects. If you can't depend on GTK+ 2.10 now, then please keep this bug around until you can. libegg should only be used as a module where the code can be developped before being adopted in gtk+/glib/some-other-library. It's not code that we want to see everywhere like this happened. That's what we're trying to fix now.
We never got around to actually using this code.