Re: Some feedback about using gtkmm in real projects.

[Germán Diago <germandiago gmail com>]

> However, Germán's point does raise the issue why pure GObject objects
> are always created in gtkmm by factory functions, rather than being
> created as auto objects or by the new expression as in the case of
> objects derived from GInitiallyUnowned/GtkObject.   The fact that pure
> GObjects have no floating reference on creation is not crucial to the
> issue of how they are to be implemented in glibmm/gtkmm.
>
> Is there any special reason why pure GObject objects are always
> managed by smart pointer in gtkmm?