Re: none

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> writes:

> 
> If you want weakrefs, and think object data is inconvenient, then
> we should spend the two minutes to port:
> 
> void gtk_object_weakref	  (GtkObject	    *object,
> 			   GtkDestroyNotify  notify,
> 			   gpointer	     data);
> void gtk_object_weakunref (GtkObject	    *object,
> 			   GtkDestroyNotify  notify,
> 			   gpointer	     data);
> 
> Though note that the only differences between this and 
> g_object_set_data_full are a) the presence use of a key, and b) 
> the order of the arguments.

The problem with the key is the need to make sure you have a unique
one; perhaps a minor inconvenience. I agree this would be a good move.
 
> Clarifying that ::destroy is a "disconnect everything" command
> rather than notification of the object being freed or going
> into a "destroyed" state is a major conceptual win for GTK+-2.0.

Conceptual clarity is good, but I think the name of the signal has
more to do with this than what class it belongs to.

How about: 

(a) renaming the signal "disconnect" or "drop_references" or
something.  

(b) moving it for GtkWidget, if it really only makes sense for
widgets.

(On another note - is there anything at all in GtkObject that
shouldn't be moved to either GObject or GtkWidget?)

Regards,

Maciej