Re: Request of API which are thread safe/unsafe

[Andrew Cowie <andrew operationaldynamics com>]

On Sat, 2012-01-21 at 23:46 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:

> We have a feature called 'gdk threads' that can also be used to make
> calls to GTK from other threads, but this is not portable and its use is
> generally discouraged (and there is discussion about removing it from
> the next version of GTK).

There is?

We rely on this heavily. In our experience over the past 6+ years it
works very well.

Please leave the gdk threads mechanism in place.

AfC
Sydney