Re: Rationalizing widget default styles

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Tim Janik <timj gtk org> writes:

> On 26 Jun 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:
> 
> >  * It removes:
> > 
> >     gtk_widget_set_default_style()
> >     gtk_widget_push_style()
> >     gtk_widget_pop_style()
> 
> sounds good.
> 
> >  * It makes the canonical way to remove a style set with
> >    gtk_widget_set_style (widget, style) -  
> >    gtk_widget_set_style (widget, NULL). I believe this is the
> >    way of unsetting the style for a widget that would make
> >    the most sense to someone familiar with the GTK+ API.
> 
> agree.
> 
> >  * It makes the functions:
> > 
> >     gtk_widget_set_rc_style (widget)
> >     gtk_widget_restore_default_style (widget)
> > 
> >    Deprecated aliases for gtk_widget_set_style (widget, NULL);
> 
> i suppose the only valid way to actually style-harm ;) a widget then
> is gtk_widget_modify_style() right (except for, if you want to create
> a new style from scratch)?
> shouldn't we just nuke gtk_widget_set_rc_style() and
> gtk_widget_restore_default_style() aswell then?

I've left them as deprecated aliases because gtk_widget_set_style()
is being left (even if it is always better to use gtk_widget_modify_*),
and thus the operation that people used them for "nuke style
set by gtk_widget_set_style()" still makes sense.

Regards,
                                        Owen