Re: gtkmm 3.0.

[Oscar Lazzarino <oscar lazzarino gmail com>]

On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Germán Diago <germandiago gmail com> wrote:
> Hello. I've been using gtkmm for two small projects now.
> From my usage, I would like to make some (realistic) suggestions.
>
> I see there are some pieces of the api where Glib::RefPtr is used, and
> some others where it's not used at all. As gtkmm 3.0 approaches, there's
> an opportunity to break API and ABI.
>
> I would suggest to treat every object in the same way. gtk+ uses
> reference counting.
> What I would suggest is something that gobjectconsume
> (http://live.gnome.org/GObjectIntrospection/GObjectConsume see
> examples)
> already does:
>
> to wrap the c type in this way:
>
> Gtk::Button button("push me");
> Gtk::Button samebutton = button; //increases reference count.
>

FWIW, I think keeping explicit RefPtr helps keeping in mind that a
widget should not be copied and can not be placed in multiple places.

But I agree that some uniformity would be nice (and I would like
seeing RefPtr everywhere).

O.