Re: Various questions about Gtk::PlacesSidebar

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 16:13 +0200, Krzysztof Kosiński wrote:
> 2013/9/2 Kjell Ahlstedt <kjell ahlstedt bredband net>:
> > Objects of classes that derive from Gtk::Object are not put in
> > Glib::RefPtr<>s. I'm not sure why.
>
> I'm also a little confused by this but it probably has something to do
> with Gtk::manage().

GtkWidgets don't use simple reference counting in the GTK+ C API. They
can be destroyed at any time regardless of the reference count. So we
can't use RefPtr with them easily.

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