Re: status of GtkCombo (gtk 1.3.6)

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Joshua N Pritikin <vishnu pobox com> writes:
> i'm trying to use GtkCombo, but it seems to have a reference counting problem
> somewhere in gtk_combo_set_popdown_strings.  i notice that GtkCombo uses GtkList,
> which is deprecated, yet, GtkCombo is not deprecated.  What is the
> meaning?

GtkList is deprecated for direct use, but not for use in
GtkCombo. GtkCombo would be deprecated if we had a replacement, but we
don't yet, so it isn't yet.

> Is there need for someone to hack GtkCombo and replace the GtkList with
> a GtkListView?

I think that would be bad, since we intend to replace GtkCombo; best
to avoid code churn.

Havoc