Re: gtkmm 3.0: Removing ListHandle, SListHandle, etc

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 21:41 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> In gtkmm 3.0, I'd like to remove the intermediate container types
> because they just confuse people and make it necessary to read the
> documentation:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtkmm-tutorial/unstable/sec-intermediate-types.html.en
> 
> So, for instance, Gtk::FileChooser::get_uris() would return a
> std::list<> or std::vector instead of a Glib::SListhandle<>:
> http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtkmm/2.20/classGtk_1_1FileChooser.html#abe7450acc71c70b5f595f9e23224a24e
> 
> I think people generally agree with me about this, but I'd like to hear
> about any objections.
> 
> Also, should we use std::list or std::vector? I suspect that std::vector
> would be more useful.

Thanks to Krzesimir Nowak this is now done in gtkmm 3. We chose
std::vector.

You'll still see the old *Handle types in glibmm and pangomm, because we
have not done an ABI break there yet.

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