Re: [Beaver-devel] Next release

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1) I think we better write real new code (like in conf.c/conf.h) after 
we migrate everything to GtkUiManager. Otherwise, we will have to change 
the code before, after and during the migration. The idea of using the 
key parser is very good, by the way. In my opinion, one config file is 
enough.

2) old_editor.c and old_editor.h are the only  old files, to my 
knowledge. I guess we can remove them. They aren't compiled in the 
Makefile, are they?

3) Personally, I think we can get rid of the .bl-function. Of course, 
it's a very innovative function for Beaver, as a small editor that tends 
to just have conservative functions. But if we really want to have it 
working, we have to spend time on it, and removing it will probably make 
Beaver faster and a little bit less memory-consuming. Plus the fact that 
the function is three years old and may be using outdated technologies.

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I've got some victims already in mind. The things that I've seen, but 
clearly need some discussion are the following:
> 1) conf.h / conf.c are handling the loading/saving of the configfile. 
> gtk+2.0 has a "Key-file parser" which is exactly what we need. Do we 
> want to use the library functions or do we want to use the old 
> implementation? The Keyfile parser is in the library we use right now, 
> so no extra dependency would be created but the code would be much 
> more readable. I think the same functionality could be achieved with 
> much lesser code, should help to decrease the memory foot print ^^
>
> What the old implementation could do is support "multiple config 
> files" (or I think they do). This comes from the observation because 
> the function get_string_conf  is called something like 
> "General/Category/Key" and "General" obviously means which config 
> file. I do not see the need of multiple config files. Should this 
> feature be saved?
>
> 2) what about those old files that we don't really use (like 
> old_editor.c) could they be removed?
> 3) do we still need the bl-file load feature (as far as I know that 
> thing didn't really worked anyway)? Can I remove it? What other 
> features don't we need?
>
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