libxfcegui4 version to try

[edscott wilson garcia]

El lun, 02-02-2004 a las 15:29, Benedikt Meurer escribió:
> Good evening everybody,
> 
> I finally came around to finish my work on an about dialog for xfce 
> applications (something ones one ask me to do in the pre 4.0 days, but I never 
> completed the stuff till now). The class for this is XfceAboutDialog in 
> xfce_aboutdialog.h/.c. To minimize the API for this dialog class (to keep it 
> easy to adjust), I put the data in a separate structure XfceAboutInfo which is 
> given to the XfceAboutDialog constructor, besides a parent window and an 
> optionally application icon.
> 
> Attached to this mail are 3 screenshots showing how the about dialog looks 
> like (in case of the session manager).
> 
> The attached tarball requires latest libxfce4util to work, as I moved the 
> licenses to libxfce4util to not require the user to install xfce-utils just to 
> get the license texts showing.
> 
> The XFce version ("XFce 4.1.4") string you see on the screenshots is currently 
> taken from the libxfcegui4 VERSION macro. This is one thing I'd like to get 
> rid of. I'd like to see a function xfce_get_version_string() or similar in 
> libxfce4util that returns a) either the libxfce4util VERSION, replacing 
> xfce-utils as the "Version package" (which makes more sense to me, since 
> libxfce4util has to be installed in any case, whereas xfce-utils is optinal), 
> or b) adding a special version string to libxfce4util - set from configure.ac 
> - that tells the XFce version number, which can then be different from the 
> version number of the libxfce4util package. Olivier, Jasper, Edscott, Botsie, 
> what do you think? a), b) or another way?

If I understand correctly, what would be nice are two strings, one which
informs of the libxfce4util version (set from the configure script at
compile time) and another version string that pertains to the
application that is using libxfce4util, and set as a parameter by the
application.

regards
> 
> regards,
> Benedikt