Question about the WNCK dependency (pager)

[Andrzej]

On 11/27/2011 11:08 PM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
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>> 2) Can we simply ship a modified "pager.c" file from the libwnck with
>> our code? We could switch back to the upstream version when we move to
>> Gtk-3.
[...]
> Wasn't there already a fork of wnck in Xfce, which we dropped recently?
> Embedded code is usually a bad idea for maintainance and security
> reasons, so if there's another solution, imho, it's best.

Yves, I'm not proposing forking the whole wnck in xfce - that would 
indeed cause maintenance problems. I just want to tweak one of its 
widgets - the pager. Unfortunately, I can't just inherit from it and 
change a couple of functions because most of the interesting knobs are 
in private variables. OTOH, relying on the upstream to fix it, means 
waiting a year or two for some slower distributions to pick up the code 
(and that's assuming we can push all our ideas through). That will be 
the case every single time we want to change something in this widget.

I'm in favor of bringing this single component into the XFCE code base. 
If anything, it will reduce the maintenance burden.

Of course, the decision belongs to you guys, and since it looks like 
there is a disagreement, I'll wait for this discussion to settle before 
doing any further work.

Andrzej