Re: [Nautilus-list] Re: nautilus & signals ...

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 08:57 AM, Michael Meeks wrote:

> 	The other thing is that I must say I'm not convinced about the choice
> of overloading shed loads of signals on objects to implement complex
> functionality instead of just sub-classing it in the normal way. It
> seems to me a fairly obscure and complex way of doing something that is
> more legible, standard (and faster) to do with virtual methods and
> inheritance.

I can think of one example of this, NautilusIconContainer's use for 
FMIconView. For that case, it would be good to change it to use 
inheritance rather than signal handlers.

I don't know of any other examples.

    -- Darin