Re: GTK+-2.4.0 released

[Paul Pogonyshev <pogonyshev gmx net>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> New drop-down selection widget
>
>  The GtkComboBox widget replaces the old GtkOptionMenu and 
>  GtkCombo widgets with a single unified appearance 
>  and programming interface for both editable and non-editable
>  dropdowns. Other enhancements provided include customizability
>  of the main display widget and grid layouts for the drop-down 
>  menu.

I haven't looked at it yet, but I'd like to comment on your deprecation
policy.  It seems somewhat too aggressive to me.  It is quite difficult
to write a program that would compile fine with all GTK+ 2.x versions
with *_DISABLE_DEPRECATED defines.  I cannot use GtkOptionMenu because
it is deprecated since 2.4.  I cannot use GtkComboBox either, because
it didn't exist before 2.4.

Oh well, I'll just write internal abstraction layer that will #if to
either GtkOptionMenu or GtkComboBox at one point.  But will everybody
else be willing to do the same thing?

Paul