Re: Programmer's criticism of GTK2

[Maxim Koshelev <max krascoal ru>]

Jonathan Blandford wrote:

> You can use GtkTreeIters from GtkListStore/GtkTreeStore until they're
> deleted.  It's just GtkTreeModelSort iters that can't be kept after
> signals changed.
Hehe, you really can't use them, because for removing operation you need 
valid
iterator :-(

> I'd like to think that GtkTreeView is much more flexible.  You can do a
> lot more with it.  Part of the price of this flexibility is complexity.
Valid way is set of routines which contains complex routines as well as 
simple routines.
E.g. GTK-1.x has GtkList for basic lists and GtkCList for complex lists :-)

> I've contemplated making a CList-like list wrapper that people can use,
> and am still undecided if it's a good idea or not.
Unfortunately CList wrapper will be even slower :-)