Cleaning up libxfcegui4...

[Stephan Arts]

On 5/3/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Stephan Arts wrote:
> >>>Another option would be to move the useful stuff from libxfcegui4 to
> >>>libexo (and the netk stuff to libnetk) and let applications use libexo
> >>>instead of libxfcegui4 (over time). This would require moving the
> >>>"Preferred Applications" MCS plugin to xfce4-mcs-plugins, tho, to
> >>>resolve the cyclic redundancy.
> >>
> >>Err, redundancy = dependency. ;-)
> >>
> >>And while thinking about this again, depending on how Xfce should look
> >>and work in the future, this may be the best option.
> >
> > I agree.
> > I am interested in your ideas about this regarding the other two libraries?
> > libxfce4utils and libxfce4mcs? Or am i going off-topic here?
>
> I cleaned up libxfce4util recently. It doesn't contain any deprecated
> stuff, except xfce_strip_context(). We need to keep libxfce4mcs around
> until we have a replacement for MCS, which is not going to happen for
> Xfce 4.4. We'll see to this later.
>
> Also, libxfce4util and libxfce4mcs do not really present a problem here.
> For example compare the sizes of the various libraries (stripped):
>
> 256K    libexo-0.3.so.3
> 304K    libxfcegui4.so.5
>  52K    libxfce4util.so.4
>  16K    libxfce4mcs-client.so.3
>  24K    libxfce4mcs-manager.so.3
> 178K    libthunar-vfs-1.so.3
>  34K    libthunarx-1.so.3
>
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>  226560    3488     304  230352   383d0 libexo-0.3.so.3
>  266132   10440     544  277116   43a7c libxfcegui4.so.5
>   49754     952    1184   51890    cab2 libxfce4util.so.4
>   13948     804      52   14804    39d4 libxfce4mcs-client.so.3
>   20175     908      52   21135    528f libxfce4mcs-manager.so.3
>  173496    4908     484  178888   2bac8 libthunar-vfs-1.so.3
>   31191    1184     112   32487    7ee7 libthunarx-1.so.3
>
> libxfce4util's bss size is kinda confusing, I guess part of the problem
> are the various static locks, but that's still a lot. But as you can
> see, libxfcegui4 is the biggest player in town, even tho only a few bits
> of the library are still in wide use today.

Thank you for your explaination :).
Now i agree even more. :p

> Benedikt

Stephan