xfce4-iconbox removal from core xfce4

Benedikt Meurer Benedikt.Meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Thu Jul 3 12:26:09 CEST 2003


On Thu, 03, Jul 2003, Benedikt Meurer wrote:

> > > I'm not very happy with xfce4-iconbox. The code make use of private
> > > structure from libxfcegui4 and that's definitely not good.
> > > 
> > > Well, I dont think it should be part of xfce4 core components. I vote
> > > for moving it to xfce4-extras for now. 
> > > 
> > > Opinions, anybody ?
> > 
> > It is the same thing for me whether it is in xfce4-extras or xfce-devel
> > since I always install both. OTH, shouldn't private structures in
> > libxfcegui4 be defined static so other modules cannot access them?
> 
> This won't work, since not all Netk functions are in the same file.
> But we could ensure that private stuff isn't exported from
> libxfcegui4.

... by changing the -export-symbols-regex.

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