Re: GTK+ freeze break request

[Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>]

Am Dienstag, den 10.03.2009, 12:11 -0400 schrieb Matthias Clasen:
> Torsten pointed out an issue with some new api in GTK+ 2.16 that will
> cause difficulties for object-oriented bindings, unless we fix it now:
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574561
> 
> The problem is that
> 
> gtk_style_get_property (a new function to obtain a style property) clashes with
> g_object_get (the existing function to get object properties) when
> they turn into
> style.get() in an object-oriented language.
> 
> The proposal is to rename gtk_style_get_property to
> gtk_style_get_style_property.
> A google code search for gtk_style_get_property comes up empty.
> 
> I'm pretty convinced that it is the right choice to do this
> last-minute fix now, before the problematic function becomes part of
> the stable 2.16 api. But I am willing to listen to
> counter-arguments....

Yupp, change it as soon as possible. Let's try to keep the number of new
deprecations in gtk low for 2.17...

Hope that Google is right here - we'll see.

andre
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