Re: gtkmm 3.24 or new API in gtkmm 3.22?

[Daniel Boles <dboles src gmail com>]

On 15 September 2017 at 11:34, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:

On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 11:29 +0100, Daniel Boles wrote:
> Sorry if it was already discussed -  I feel like it probably was, but
> can't see it right now.
>
> Even though GTK+ has no plans for versions > 3.22, couldn't gtkmm
> branch and have an 'almost-stable' gtkmm-3-24, etc of its own for
> changes that are fairly innocuous, but which you still don't want in
> the 3-22 branch?

Let's keep that as a possibility, but I haven't seen a serious need for
it yet. But I could be persuaded by a list of API additions that we'd
like to make in 3.22 or 3.24. Otherwise it's just a hypothetical that
we don't need to worry about.

I'd need to ponder more to get a proper list, but some additions from recent memory are wrapping Window.show_uri(), which is relatively unimportant;

this new method in GtkFlowBox:

https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/gtk/gtkflowbox.c?h=gtk-3-22&id=9679ef6b00cb087fecf772bb69ab9a2ad7429835

and this fix for odd gtkmm API, which is wordy to work around in user code:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=784390

There's also things that may yet be backported to GTK+ 3.22, due to the existing equivalents being a bit broken, e.g. the InfoBar:revealed property (and probably same for ActionBar, though that issue is noticed less often).