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Bug 688989 - GApplication xml metadata file
GApplication xml metadata file
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: glib
Classification: Platform
Component: gapplication
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtkdev
gtkdev
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-24 18:47 UTC by Allison Karlitskaya (desrt)
Modified: 2018-05-24 14:51 UTC
See Also:
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Description Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2012-11-24 18:47:23 UTC 
There are currently a bunch of random annoying things that you have to do to setup your typical GtkApplication...

Things like setting the default gettext domain, initialising locale, etc.

Add to this all the stuff like setting up your menus, actions, accels, etc.

Quite a lot of this could be put into an XML file that accompanies the application (possibly as a resource) describing it.

A good place to start might be with the gettext domain and directory.


One slightly obnoxious aspect of this is that we will probably need to do a .xml.in -> xml sort of thing in order to deal with different install prefixes (for finding the aforementioned translation files).

Alternatively we could figure out a better way to deal with that.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2012-11-26 01:34:22 UTC 
Short answer: I don't like it
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2013-11-23 04:45:46 UTC 
we may need this after all
Comment 3 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2013-11-23 04:47:33 UTC 
Anything in particular that you had in mind?
Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2013-11-24 14:39:21 UTC 
no, I was just basically retracting my initial assessment, to not prevent this from going forward.
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 14:51:35 UTC 
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