Allowing GTK+ child widgets to prevent their own destruction

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

gtk_container_destroy() destroys its child widgets, regardless of any
extra outstanding refs. Not everybody knows that.

** The problem:
But gtkmm likes to make this optional, because it fits better with C++.
We do this by overriding gtk_container_destroy(). But that's no good
when adding a gtkmm widget to a GTK+ container. For instance, when
gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport() creates a non-gtkmm GtkViewport
and puts the gtkmm widget inside it.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97729

** A solution:
I'd like to give control back to the child widget, by changing
gtk_container_destroy() so that it checks some
"does_not_want_to_be_destroyed_by_container" qdata in the child widget
before calling gtk_object_destroy(). It wouldn't break API, and
shouldn't affect performance. Is this acceptable?

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