RE: About dialog API

[martyn 2 russell bt 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?

That's part of the debate.  This was just the original proposal (i believe).
I personally prefere either mutliple member get's and set's OR an argv
function similar to how gtk_tree_store_set() works.

Martyn