Re: Patch for gnome-icon-list

[Norman Stevens <norman arcady u-net com>]

On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> >  At some point the definition of the GnomeIconListClass was changed
> >  to use a private data structure. This left applications using
> >  that structure no means of retrieving values such as the icon width,
> >  spacing, and separator text. The following patch introduces access
> >  functions for the now private data.
> [snip]
> 
> At this point we cannot add new functions to gnome-libs, since it
> would break forwards compatibility.  However, if any applications were
> using fields in the GnomeIconList structure that are now private
> fields, they need to be reverted to remain source and binary
> compatible.
> 
> Could you please tell me which applications use which fields and don't
> work now?
> 
I was trying to compile gtk--. The icon list class in 
gtk--/gnome--/gnome--/icon-list.cc doesn't compile because
it needs access to these fields for a copy function.

Norman