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

[Auke Kok]

Olivier Fourdan wrote:

>On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 21:23 +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
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>>Olivier Fourdan wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>
>
>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.
>


as long as Benny uses autoconf to detect the presence of GConf and then 
use that information to turn it on or off I see no reason to provide a 
default - this is why we use autoconf right?

the only people who have a tough choice are the ones making binary 
packages ;^)

Auke