Re: About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things

[Johan Dahlin <jdahlin async com br>]

Owen Taylor wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 11:20 +0200, Colin Leroy wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hmm, strangely most code worked fine with GTK+ 2.0 with a recompile...
> (e.g., I remember doing that for gftp, not a trivial app.)

Ditto, I remembered doing devhelp and helping out doing a couple of
dialogs in nautilus.

Hopefully we'll have refactoring tools ready for the 3.0 transition which 
makes the process roughly similar.

Johan