Re: Gtk::Container child properties

[Juan Rafael García Blanco <juanrgar gmail com>]

Mmm, I’d like to give this a try and get a little dirty with infrastructure stuff.

On 13 Apr 2014, at 10:17, Kjell Ahlstedt <kjell ahlstedt bredband net> wrote:

> 2014-04-12 20:35, Murray Cumming skrev:
> > On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 19:16 +0200, Juan Rafael García Blanco wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I’ve observed that subclasses of Gtk::Container tend to declare properties on their children. In the 
> > > gtkmm source code I’ve read that they are used for theming so that there is no point in wrapping them. 
> > > Does this currently hold?
> > Probably not.
> >
> >
> > >  IMO there is no such difference between properties and child properties.
> > A child property is just a property of a container's child, such as it's
> > alignment or whether it should expand, I think. I'm sure they are
> > useful, if we can find a nice API for it. But it might not be necessary
> > to use the generic property API. Maybe all the functions do what we need
> > already. I don't know.
> See also this 10 year old bug report: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140515