Re: GTK+ Application class

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi Rodrigo;

On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 18:33 +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
 
> > That could be a route to explore - I think its really important to
> > keep GtkWindow really simple in that respect though - it could be
> > a dialog - it could be a popup window, a popup menu - or even a tooltip,
> > So I would suggest that if we bind such logic into GtkWindow - making
> > it some kind of hybrid composite widget - we should definitly do
> > that in a GtkAppWindow subclass (that could be then used by the
> > GtkApplication in question).
> > 
> and why not have:
> 
> gtk_window_new -> as it is now
> gtk_window_new_dialog (buttons,...)
> gtk_window_new_main_app(menus, toolbar, etc)
> 
> ?

Because we have a clear separation: a GtkDialog is a GtkWindow but not
the other way around.  GtkWindow is a primitive object which should be
specialised in subclasses.

I'm not sure that having a GtkApplicationWindow is the road to go - it
would be a fairly specialised subclass of GtkWindow, and should bind
together a bunch of stuff (toolbars, menus, status bar, session state)
that might be too generic to effectively be usable by projects.  Anyway,
a GtkApplicationWindow would be better than shoving stuff directly
inside the GtkWindow class.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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