Re: BonoboDockLayout and ref/sink

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

On Wed, 2001-12-05 at 13:31, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
>         To get rid of this, you could:
>         
>          A) Make it derive from GObject instead
>          B) Make it ref/sink itself.
>         
>         Either way would be an API change, since you theoretically should have
>         _always_ have called ref/sink on it, and A) would make that an error
>         and B) would make that a memory leak.
>         
>         So, I suspect that there isn't much that can be done about it now,
>         but I thought I'd point out the issue. (Just fixed GnomeApp to
>         do the ref/sink.)
>     
>       Sigh.  Since only the libraries themselves use BonoboDockLayout and
>     the change is trivial, I'd really rather have it fixed than keep it
>     broken like this.
> 
>   So, what is the story with this?  Do we leave it broken?

i have patches to do this the Right way included in my
glade-for-libgnomeui fixes.  i'll send them when it's working.

jacob
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