Re: Ruler Class in GTK+ 3

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 9 January 2015 at 18:14, Carlos Pereira
<jose carlos pereira ist utl pt> wrote:
> This is really unfortunate, my application also has a ruler... GTK is really
> moving away from its users,

where "its users" is a small subset of people using a single, niche
widget and who did not show up when said widget was on the pile of
widgets to potentially deprecate:

 * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2000-October/msg00163.html
 - yes, 2000. it was before GTK 2.0, and GtkRuler was definitely on
the chopping board. sadly, we did not get around deprecating it
immediately.

 * https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2009-October/msg00111.html
 - first discussion about deprecating over-specialized, unmaintained,
niche widgets

 * https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613942
 - tracking bug from 2010 about deprecating said widgets

care to be slightly less melodramatic in the future? alternatively, if
you find a deprecated widget, you can step up and maintain it. we can
"undeprecate" it, after all.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

> > none. GtkRuler was deprecated in GTK+ 2.x and removed in GTK+ 3.x.
> > it's a*very*  niche widget, and most applications that use one in
> > their UI ended up having their own class.
> >
> > my suggestion is to look at ruler widgets in GIMP and Inkscape.
> >
> > if you want to draw your own, you can use a GtkDrawingArea subclass
> > with a custum draw() virtual function.
> >
> > ciao,
> >   Emmanuele.
>
>
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