Re: none

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, James Henstridge wrote:
> 
> > On 13 Dec 2000, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes: 
> > > > what? how's GtkObject deprecated?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > It has exactly one feature not found in GObject, which is the
> > > "destroy" signal. Our claim is that "destroy" is only useful for GUI
> > > objects, so "destroy" should really be in GtkWidget. So GtkObject is
> > > just legacy cruft.
> > 
> > It also handles the floating reference stuff.  Is that also going to be
> > deprecated?  It simplifies using GTK from C quite a bit.
> 
> nope, that's not deprecated, and the floating will never propagate to GObject.
> read my reply to havoc and be relieved ;)
> 

But the same thing I said about "destroy" applies, the floating flag
should be in GtkWidget or in GObject.

GtkObject is a useless node in the inheritance hierarchy; it has no
conceptual purpose.

Havoc