Re: Make GCancellable subclassable?

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 10:36 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:

> > I'd also welcome if GCancellable and GInitable could be moved to
> > GObject. They are potentially useful outside GIO.
> 
> Why can't you not use them from GIO? GIO is a general library that has
> the same availability as gobject (ship in same tarball) and no
> significant extra cost (gtk+ links to it anyway).

It doesn't matter on the desktop of course. But for embedded devices GIO
is often not useful. Still GCancellable and GInitable would be
potentially useful. And both class feel semantically closer to GObject
than to GIO.


Sven