Re: GtkMessageDialog convenience method

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 11:25 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > 	I indeed suggested some time ago the creation of convenience functions
> > being in charge of creating the dialog, running it and returning. Some
> > of them are shown below:
> [snip]
> 
> Your patches are still here:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328831
> 
> But I still need to investigate with the GTK+ developers exactly what the
> status is of using gtk_dialog_run(). They seem to discourage it, but I
> guess there are some situations in which they think it is OK. You may also
> ask on gtk-list about that.

what?

i thought this new model was one of the centerpieces of modern GTK! 
what is the proposed alternative?