Re: Gtk2: defaults for widget constructors

["John McDermott" <jjm jkintl com>]

Joren wrote
> Daniel Lacroix wrote: 
> > If you have default value to set. The easiest way to do it is to rename
> > *new function into *_new and write a wrapper in perl (Gtk2::VBox::new)
> > which set the default value and call Gtk2::VBox::_new. 
> Of course this will work. 
> I would vote for having old Gtk defaults also in Gtk2 and would add the
> corresponding changes. Because this is a more or less basic design 
> issue, I want to ask here, if that's Ok before starting to work on it.

First, anything to make porting gtk apps to gtk2 easier would be a big help.

One way to implement the "old" defaults might be to allow the user to 
call a method or set a flag of some sort to enable the old defaults.  Of 
course, if everyone wants the old defaults then this is not necessary.

--john

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