Re: balsa fails to build with gtk+-3.10.6

[Pawel Salek <pawsa0 gmail com>]

On 12/30/2013 11:43:06 PM, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 12/30/2013 05:24:30 PM Mon, Paweł Sałek wrote:
> > On 12/28/2013 01:14:36 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > it looks like Balsa still uses the structure GtkAction which is  
> > > deprecated in
> > > gtk+-3.10.6  (its definition is contained in  
> > > /usr/include/gtk-3.0/gtk/deprecated/gtkaction.h
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I confirm the issue. This action group API turned out to be rather  
> > unstable. Fortunately, fixing this looks fairly straightforward  
> > (famous last words! :).
> >
> > Pawel
>
> Ah, yes...Balsa itself was purged of that API a while ago, but  
> balsa-ab, the address book editor, is yet to be worked on.  One issue  
> is whether it should be a GtkApplication or continue to be a  
> GtkWindow--as I recall, that affects how GtkAction is replaced in the  
> menus.  Standalone GNOME apps are encouraged to be GtkApplications,  
> but is the editor a standalone app?

At some point in time, I thought it would be nice to have it as a  
separate tool. Right now, I think it would be better to add edit  
functionality directly to balsa and drop balsa-ab entirely.

Pawel