Re: About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things

[Colin Leroy <colin colino net>]

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:51:03 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:

Hi,

> IMO, if you're still using GtkCTree and GtkCList, which were
> deprecated when GTK+ 2.0 was released 6 years ago, you're asking for
> trouble.

Well, they do work for us. When GTK+ 2.0 was released six years ago, we
were already too busy with the rest of the rewriting code-that-worked to
do it. Two years and nine days, exactly, between the first commit to
the GTK2 branch and the first GTK2 release after 497 commits. And we
never came to replace the GtkCtrees because a) they work and b) we
didn't have the time/motivation.
 
> The tooltips should be easy to port, the tree and list widgets less
> so, which is why it should have started quite some time ago...

and the GtkItemFactory are huge to port too. And probably there is
more; I've just looked at the first batch of compilation errors using
GTK_DISABLE_DEPRECATED.

As Mathias said, a libgtk-legacy (or -compat or whatever) seems a good
idea and (in my application developer's opinion) least that can be done
for the users of the GTK+ lib.

There are 2017 applications on http://gnomefiles.org/ ; how many of
these projects have the available manpower to rewrite their code? How
many of these are projects are run by enthusiasts on their free time ?

-- 
Colin