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GNOME Goal: Port to GtkApplication

Introduction

Porting your application to use GtkApplication has quite nice benefits:

GtkApplication handles GTK+ initialization, application uniqueness, session management, provides some basic scriptability and desktop shell integration by exporting actions and menus and manages a list of toplevel windows whose life-cycle is automatically tied to the life-cycle of your application.

Guidelines

If you are currently using libunique, take a look to the porting guide.
If you are currently using eggsmclient, we have a porting guide too.
If you are not using neither of this two technologies, take a look to the general GtkApplication documentation

Status of this goal

Tip: If you choose to work on a module, create the bug report on the GNOME bugzilla for the relevant module, and make it block bug <<insert here a link to the tracker bug>>. This way people will know someone already works on it, and won't duplicate the work you're doing.

State	Markup
todo	`<: #ff8080> todo`
patch	`<: #ffcc50> [[GnomeBug:xxxxx\|patch]]`
done	`<: #80ff80> [[GnomeBug:xxxxx\|done]]`
not needed	`<: #80ff80> not needed`

Above are the states and corresponding markup to update the modules state table below.

Tarball	Status
core
evolution-data-server	not needed
gnome-bluetooth	not needed
gnome-online-accounts	not needed
gnome-control-center	done
gnome-keyring	not needed
gnome-menus	not needed
gnome-packagekit	done
gnome-power-manager	done
gnome-screensaver	not needed
gnome-session	not needed
gnome-settings-daemon	not needed
gnome-shell	not needed
mousetweaks	not needed
pulseaudio	not needed
telepathy-mission-control	not needed
core-utilities
baobab	done
brasero	to do
empathy	done
eog	done
epiphany	done
evince	done
gcalctool	done
gnome-contacts	done
gnome-dictionary	done
gnome-disk-utility	done
gnome-font-viewer	done
gnome-screenshot	done
gnome-search-tool	to do
gnome-system-log	done
gnome-system-monitor	done
gnome-terminal	done
gucharmap	done
nautilus	done
sushi	not needed
yelp	done
core-extras
gnome-user-share	to do
vino	to do
core-os-services
accountservice	not needed
avahi	not needed
ConsoleKit	not needed
dbus	not needed
gdm	not needed
NetworkManager	not needed
PackageKit	not needed
polkit	not needed
upower	not needed
apps
accerciser	to do
aisleriot	to do
anjuta	done
cheese	done
devhelp	done
evolution	done
file-roller	done
gedit	done
ghex	done
glade	done
gnome-color-manager	done
gnome-devel-docs	not needed
gnome-documents	done
gnome-games	done
gnome-nettool	to do
nautilus-sendto	not needed
nemiver	to do
orca	to do
rygel	to do
seahorse	done
totem	done
vinagre	done
other
alacarte	to do
banshee	to do
deja-dup	to do
f-spot	to do
firefox	to do
gimp	to do
gnome-boxes	done
gnote	done
hitori	done
inkscape	to do
libre-office	done
liferea	done	Done in the unstable branch
rhythmbox	done
simple-scan	done
sound-juicer	done
thunderbird	to do
tomboy	to do
transmission	patch
x-chat-gnome	to do