Re: Deprecated Gtk::Stock replacement?!

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 19:07 +0100, Markus Kolb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> what should be used instead of the Gtk::Stock labels on buttons?
>
> The documentation is not really helpful:
> "Stock items have been recommended for use in buttons. From gtkmm-3.10 
> they are deprecated. They should not be used in newly-written code. 
> However, the documentation of namespace Gtk::Stock shows recommended 
> labels and named icons to show in buttons."

Yes, that text, from here,
https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/unstable/gtkmm-tutorial.html
is a bit odd.

The gtkmm tutorial (book) is out of date in many places now due to the
many deprecations and API additions in GTK+ (and therefore gtkmm) over
the years.

Unfortunately recent GTK+ deprecations often lack proper explanation. We
try to discover the reasoning, but often we just have to make gtkmm's
documentation repeat the vague statements that are in the GTK+
documentation

> e.g.
> extern GTKMM_API const Gtk::BuiltinStockID CANCEL; /*!< @image html 
> gtk-cancel.png
>                                                      * @deprecated Do not 
> use an icon. Use label "_Cancel". */
>
> The Gtk::Stock:: stuff had translation "built-in". So do we have to 
> translate the default system buttons on ourself again.

Yes, I find that really annoying too.

I believe that the logic is that the translation would be very context
dependent anyway. But I don't find that very convincing.

>  Or what should be 
> used?

You can continue to use them, or just assume that they don't exist, I'm
afraid.

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