This looks really cool, but on Arch it does not compile because libgnomeui is not a thing that seems to exist anymore. Hasn't anyone made some modern port of this?
const_str.hh: In static member function
‘static void const_str::safe_free(const char*)’:
const_str.hh:33:61: error: ‘free’ was not declared in this scope
static void safe_free(const char *s) { if (s) free((void*)s); }
^
Suggestions?