Re: GNOME ABI review

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 10:41:10AM -0400, David Adam Bordoley wrote:
> Havoc Wrote:
> >> Some HIG ready widgets would also be really helpful..
> > GTK should simply be made HIG-ready. The easiest way is convenience
> > constructors, e.g. there's one in bugzilla for the alert windows with
> > primary/secondary text.
> 
> And yet the gtkbug about implementing a HIG frame widget was marked invalid 
> or notabug and owen on the gtk-devel list expressed little interest in 
> adding an actual widget to gtk. see 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-July/msg00137.html 
> 

Because there are better/existing ways to do that in people's
opinion. If you don't agree then argue the specific point.

Adding widgets is not the way to approach this in general, as you
can't add a new widget without deprecating the old widget.

Havoc