[Thunar-dev] GConf? [WAS Re: Problems building new Thunar snapshot]

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Fri Nov 11 22:36:23 CET 2005


On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 21:23 +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> > Hi Benny,
> > 
> > I just noticed the #ifdef HAVE_GCONF in the patch. 
> > 
> > Do you plan to make Thunar use GConf?
> 
> Yes. It's the only way to query the list of installed GNOME 
> thumbnailers, which are required for font thumbnailing, PDF 
> thumbnailing, etc.

Ok, I have a request then: Please make it disabled by default. 

Otherwise we'll end up with a whole GNOME as a dependency for Xfce which
would be counter productive IMO.

If people want it, they can built it optionnaly, passing "--enable-
gconf" or whatever.

Cheers,
Olivier.





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