[Glade-devel] Re: GtkSeparatorMenuItem hack in _gtk_menu_item_is_selectable()

[otaylor redhat com (Owen Taylor)]

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 05:45, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> As I discovered here,
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130570
>
> there is a hack in GTK+ in _gtk_menu_item_is_selectable() to allow
> glade/libglade to use GtkMenuItems without labels, instead of
> GtkSeparatorMenuItems, for separator menu items:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gtk+/gtk/gtkmenuitem.c#1381
>
> Changing the .glade files to use GtkSeparatorMenuItems seems to work, so I
> wonder why this hack exists. I'd like to fix glade so that C++ developers
> don't need to edit the .glade file manually:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129848

menus without labels was the GTK+-0.0 => GTK+-1.2 API for separators.
There was no good reason to break that usage, and it's not really
possible to deprecate it in any controlled way. So we might as well
keep it working.

Regards,
                                                Owen