Re: About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things

[Colin Leroy <colin colino net>]

On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:55:59 +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:

Hi,

> A suggestion that came up in the post-guadec discussions was to move  
> deprecated widgets to libgtk3-compat instead of removing them. This  
> means that applications using these will have to add that as a  
> dependency to his code base in order to continue using them. Off the  
> top of my head this sounds like a good suggestion to me.

Indeed.

> The 1.x -> 2.0 change was painful for everyone who had an app that  
> needed porting, however I find it pretty irrelevant in comparison to  
> 2.x -> 3.0.

Well, if no libgtk-compat is planned, it will be about as painful
for users of the deprecated and removed widgets/functions.

-- 
Colin