Actions / UIManager and OO programming style

[Christer Palm <palm nogui se>]

Hi!
I've been working for a while with the new UIManager/Action classes, but 
I have some difficulty in finding the "right" way of using them.
First of all, although I can connect a Button to an Action using 
connect_proxy(), it won't get the Icon specified by the Action. Neither 
can the Action create a button. It appears that it would be natural for 
Actions to provide the same support for Buttons as it does for MenuItems 
and ToolItems.
Second, Action doesn't have any useful public/protected constructors. 
This makes it impossible to subclass Action, which seems to me like a 
natural way of creating actions. The same goes with UIManager and other 
fairly recently added widgets such as TreeStore/ListStore (although 
they've been fixed since). IMHO, this rather discourages good OO 
programming style.
Any suggestions?

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Christer Palm