gnome vs gnome-utils

[Geert Janssens]

On Sunday 7 March 2010, Christian Stimming wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 7. März 2010 schrieb Geert Janssens:
> > Simple question: when should code go into the gnome directory and when in
> > gnome-utils ?
> >
> > Both are obviously for gui related code, but I don't see when to use
> > which.
> 
> From the LDFLAGS the criterion goes as follows:
> * If your code depends on the non-GUI (non-GTK) gnucash parts, plus
>  src/app- utils, plus the system's GTK, libglade, libgnome, but nothing
>  else of gnucash, it should go into gnome-utils
> 
> * If the code depends on the above plus any of the other GUI modules in
> gnucash, i.e. register-gnome, report-gnome, html, it should go into gnome.
> 
> In particular, the main window by definition depends on all the widgets it
>  is going to display (register-gnome, report-gnome, html etc), and it is in
>  "gnome". Everything else doesn't need to be in "gnome", except if it in
>  turn has a dependency on the main window.
> 
> > Background: I added some code to use a keychain or keyring for db
> > passwords on systems that have such a thing available. For me this is
> > utility function, so I put it in gnome-utils. But if no keychain/ring if
> > found to lookup a password, this code calls the GnuCash built-in
> > username/password dialog to get one. But this code is in gnome. I just
> > don't understand why. That seems like a utility to me as well.
> 
> To me, this sounds as if the previous username/pw dialog could have been
>  moved to gnome-utils as well. But maybe it has some non-obvious dependency
>  into the main window, in which case it needs to be in gnome, and your code
>  could just go into there as well even though it wouldn't require that by
>  itself.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian
> 
Thanks for the information.

I have moved the username/pw dialog to gnome-utils as I couldn't find any 
gnome depency in it. It's a very simple gtk dialog box that stands completely 
on its own.

Geert