RE: About dialog API

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Owen Taylor [mailto:otaylor redhat com] 
> To: Matthias Clasen
> > But we are not, or are we ? The last API proposal was
> > 
> > void       gtk_about_dialog_show     (GtkWindow    *parent,
> > 				      GdkPixbuf    *logo,
> > 				      const gchar  *name,
> > 				      const gchar  *version,
> > 				      const gchar  *copyright,
> > 				      const gchar  *comments,
> > 				      const gchar **authors,
> > 				      const gchar **documenters,
> > 				      const gchar  *translator_credits);

> I really dislike the 9 argument form above, and it just 
> gets worse if you add build ID, license expiration date, etc. 
> I'm pretty sure we need an extensible API of some sort.

Could someone remind me why we need all this in one function. Why can't we
use multiple setters?

Murray Cumming
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