Re: [gtk-list] Re: gtk slowness?

[<nuke bayside net>]

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Jay Painter wrote:

> > hm, who is in charge for such a proposal?
> > i'm curious (extremely), in what way do you plan to change the signal
> > emission system?
> > hm, there are so mmuch things involved with signal handling/object methods
> > that i'll better shut up now and wait until i see what you have in mind.
> > but please extend on this jay!
> 
> It's not my proposal/idea, Quartic and Miguel are working on it.  The
> basic idea is to eliminate the widget-defigned signal marshalling by
> having fixed callback arguments.  Somthing like:
> 
> generic_gtk_callback (GtkWidget * widget, 
>                       gint signal_type,
>                       gpointer * data,
>                       gpointer * pointer_to_args_struct)
> 
> this makes creating signals easier, and allows the connecting of multiple
> signals to the same signal handler.  The signal handler can decide how to
> handle the signal based on it's signal_type.

that sounds like a good idea. is there an URL or any other information
about this proposal?