Re: Stock Items Deprecation

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On 17 July 2013 11:01, Jean Brefort <jean brefort normalesup org> wrote:
> Le mercredi 17 juillet 2013 à 11:47 +0200, Murray Cumming a écrit :
> > On Tue, 2013-07-02 at 09:41 -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > >
> > > As some of you may have noticed we have recently deprecated Stock
> > > Items in master.
> > >
> > >
> > > Some details on this change may be found here:
> > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KCVPoYQBqMbDP11tHPpjW6uaEHrvLUmcDPqKAppCY8o/pub
> > >
> > >
> > > Please let us know what you think.
> >
> > This deprecated several classes (GtkIconFactory, GtkIconSet,
> > GtkIconSource, GtkImageMenuItem, GtkAction, GtkUIManager).

for GtkUIManager we already have a replacement that covers about 95%
of the use cases: GtkBuilder.

GAction replaces GtkAction; images on menus have been discouraged for
years, and the whole menu system has been replaced by GMenu XML
descriptions that can be exported on the session bus.

named icons have been replacing stock items for years; API is
available both in GTK (GtkIconTheme) and in GIO (GIcon, GThemedIcon,
etc.).

> All these? And what replace them?

you should have read the thread and the document linked at the start of it.

> Should I just stop using gtk+ for
> development? I have not so much available time and rewriting code using
> deprecated classes should not use it all. I clearly prefer spend time on
> new code, or fixing bugs.

you can still use deprecated classes until we break GTK for 4.0.
deprecation does not mean removal, it just means that the deprecated
API should not ("should not", not "must not") be used in newly written
code.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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