Recommended way to cleanup your own gobject types in a desktop app (finalize and/or dispose)

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

Hi,

When I look at projects like gnome-screensaver and gnome-power-manager
I see that for their own created gobject types only the finalize
function is implemented to cleanup the resources in the end of the
application.

gnome-volume-control uses only implements the dispose function

I understand from [1] that the two cleanup function dispose and
finalize exist to make bindings to languages with garbage collection
easier. So I guess for libraries for which other language bindings
might be written it's a good thing to follow the recommendation in [1]
of what to do in finalize and dispose.

So what is recommended for applications?
1) implement dispose and finalize as recommended
2) only finalize
3) only dispose

Jaap

[1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/gobject/unstable/gobject-memory.html