Re: GTK_FLOATING broken in 2.9?

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 16:57 +0100, Tim Janik wrote:
> > right, since the floating flag is stored in GObject in 2.9, so altering
> > the GtkObject won't have any effect.
>
> > From the point of view of the release team, We Cannot Break Existing
> Code(tm).
>
> Do we really need a floating flag in gobject?
>
> We should discourage this:
>  Obj *o = obj_new ();
>  foo_set_obj (o);
>  /* I no longer own the reference to o */
>
> GtkWidget is an old-enough API that we can consider it a special case.
>
> Whether gtkmm does the right thing is debatable.  I'd just like to know
> why we need floating references at the glib level.

please read:
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-September/msg00165.html
and the associated thread which provides the original rationale.

>  Federico

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ciaoTJ