Re: On deprecating GtkTearOffMenuItem

[Stanislav Maslovski <stanislav maslovski gmail com>]

On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 03:25:05PM -0400, Paul Tan wrote:
> For those who care or use "menu/submenu tear-off feature"
> (GtkTearOffMenuItem), please read:
>  https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602882
> 
> Also please read:
>  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2010-May/msg00147.html
> >* revise 'deprecatable' list
> > - GtkTearoffMenuItem (used by a vocal minority, complicates
> >GtkMenu
> code)
> 
> I, along with some others, have expressed our views on this issue,
> and would like the GTK+ development team members to kindly reconsider
> this issue.  We would also like to hear from other GTK+ developers/
> Application-developers/users on their usages of GtkTearOffMenuItem,
> so that all of us can get a better understanding of what is at  stake
> here.

Well, I cannot say that I often use this feature, but it is (was?) one
of the good (there are many bad too) distinctive features of GTK.

How many LOC/bytes this change will save? Does it really makes a
considerable difference? Is the related code too complicated to
maintain (seems hard to believe)?

--
Stanislav