Re: Minutes of the GTK+ Team Meeting - 2008-09-23

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 11:38 -0500, Mike Kestner wrote:
>
>> If the motivation for removing the types is that, "things aren't as
>> beautiful as they could be" then that argument doesn't really outweigh
>> the pain of porting existing code.  Especially when the cost of
>> supporting existing code is so low.
>
> I think the general problem is that if you have a box type that can
> change orientation on the fly, what type is it? A HBox or a Vbox?
>

We could avoid that ambiguity by forcing the orientation property to
have a fixed value in hboxes and vboxes, at the overhead of installing
the property several times...