Re: radio-group branch

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 19:52 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 12:32 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> wrote:
> > > I just pushed the radio-group branch in git. It contains the
> > > GtkRadioGroup type and conversion of all the radio types to it.
> > > Additionally it contains a few other changes (see the commits) that I
> > > think make sense now that we don't have the GSList crap anymore.
> > 
> > I like it.
> > 
> > > I don't really have time now to convert all of gnome to the new API
> > > (since i'm on paternity leave), but in almost all cases a simple
> > > s/GSList/GtkRadioGroup/ change should fix it.
> > 
> > It would be good if we could add the radio group in 2.23 and have it
> > work in parallel to the old slist stuff. Do you think that is doable ?
> 
> We'd still have to support being able to pass in group references as
> GSList pointers. However, all GSList manipulations for the groups are
> done internally, so with some gross hack mapping GSList to GtkRadioGroup
> this should be doable.
> 
> However, I'm not sure what the gain is. Since we have to be backwards
> compatible we can't use the natural names for things, as these are all
> used by the GSList versions. We'd have to add _from_radio_group versions
> of everything similar to the _from_widget ones. This is quite ugly, and
> you'd still need to change code when moving to Gtk3.
> 
> One option could be to add the _from_radio_group stuff above, but then
> allow some #define to make the "normal" names macros that map to the
> _from_radio_group stuff. Then apps that want to use the new api befor
> porting can use this. Its all quite ugly though...
> 
> Another compat approach would be to add a GtkRadioGroup typedef in 2.23
> that maps to GSList. Then Gtk2 code could be changed to use
> GtkRadioGroup * for the type passed to the set_group calls and the
> constructors, which would compile cleanly on Gtk3. Such ported code
> won't be using the most elegant approach that is possible with Gtk3, but
> it would work.

So, what do you want to do here? How do we land this?



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