RE: API compatibility question

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 15:47, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> [snip]
> > i'd 
> > like to make gnome_icon_lookup, that takes a GnomeIconTheme 
> > take a GtkIconTheme instead. To secure ABI backwards 
> > compatibility the new gnome_icon_lookup looks at 
> > GNOME_IS_ICON_THEME (icon_theme), and automatically gets the 
> > wrapped GtkIconTheme if you pass in a GnomeIconTheme.
> 
> Personally, I'd prefer a new function in this case. But we have done similar
> sneaky things in GTK+ which cause minor API breaks without causing ABI
> breaks.

Jody noticed that GnomeIconTheme and GtkIconTheme had the same content,
so some typedef action fixed the warning.

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