Re: g_object_ref_sink and GUnowned

[Yevgen Muntyan <muntyan tamu edu>]

Tim Janik wrote:

> in fact, there is no technical reason for this. so many people have
> argued this to be better though (havoc even went so far as to argue
> why this would be conceptually neccessary), that i decided to simply
> sponsor an object type if that helps the majority to understand which
> objects are floating and which are not.

Just curious, how it will prevent someone from using floating reference in
GObject-not-GUnowned-derived object? This fuzz was not about names,
it was about "what do I do with this instance of GObject-derived class".
Introducing fancy class with fancy name doesn't change things for
GtkTreeModel, for example.
Those who proposed separate class proposed floating reference to be
implemented in this class; they did not ask to add one more class for sake
of nice name or something.

Yevgen