Re: Unloading sequence of GTK

[Dave Benson <daveb idealab com>]

On Tue, Mar 21, 2006 at 11:10:24AM -0500, Owen Taylor wrote:
> (*) Basically, it's impossible for GObject to know when a type is no
>     longer in use, because we don't have garbage collection in C.
>     So, if you unload and reload GTK+ again, referencing the
>     type "GtkButton" is going to try to create a  button object from 
>     the last copy of the GTK+ libraries.

well, if GTypes weren't permanent, there could be a g_type_ref(),
g_type_unref(), and g_type_unregister()...  gtk_unload() could call
g_type_unregister() on all the common types.

(actually, that might allow for a non-global type-context,
which i've occasionally wanted...)

- dave