Re: Plans for 2.8 - GNOME Managed Language Services?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sun, 2004-03-28 at 19:20, Owen Taylor wrote:
> In virtually all cases where there is duplication in GTK+, the property
> functions simply call the setters/getters. In a few cases, things go the
> other way (GtkFileChooser is the best example of this) - the
> setters/getters simply use the properties.
> 
> I think you *are* getting confused with signals ... you can't replace
> gtk_widget_show(widget) with g_signal_emit_by_name (widget, "show");

No, but there are functions which do almost nothing but emit signals of
the same name. But that's irrevelevant, and we have agreed in the past
tha they should be wrapped as methods rather than part of the signal.

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