[g-a-devel]AtkObject Life Cycle

[Marc Mulcahy <marc mulcahy sun com>]

What is the correct way to handle the following scenario?  An app, like 
gnome-volume-control, wants to assign accessible names to the accessibles 
representing some widgets in it.  Obviously, it calls 
gtk_widget_get_accessible and calls atk_object_set_name on the return 
value.  How does it ensure that the AtkObjects get destroyed?  Does it need 
to cache copies of all the AtkObjects it creates with 
gtk_widget_get_accessible so it can unref them, or is there some easier 
approach?  Refcounting is more straightforward when the assistive 
technology invokes the creation of accessibles, but seems a bit more merky 
when the applications themselves create them.

Marc