[colord] RFQ: Adding a GTK+ dep to libcolord

[Alexandre Prokoudine]

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Richard Hughes wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> At LGM the biggest question I'm getting is "how do I get the display
> profile for my application" and I wrote some sample code to do this.
> To do it correctly it's almost 300 lines of complicated asynchronous
> code with multiple exit points, and so I figured it should probably be
> exposed in the libcolord library as a helper to make things easier.
> This would allow you to pass in a mapped GtkWidget and get back a
> connected CdProfile that properties (including the filename) which is
> easy for the application to use.
>
> This means adding a GTK dep to libcolord. Is this a good idea? I can
> certainly add a --disable-gtk configure switch if that's required, or
> even make a libcolord-gtk library, but I'm not sure I want all the
> overhead unless it's required. The patch I'm thinking about is
> attached, comments welcome. Everyone has GTK installed, right?

Is there absolutely no way you could make this a dedicated project
like e.g. what GEGL folks do with gegl-{gtk|qt|clutter}?

Alexandre Prokoudine
http://libregraphicsworld.org