Re: GtkTable is deprecated

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Johannes Schmid <jhs jsschmid de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> GtkGrid should be pretty much a drop-in replacement for GtkTable. Keep
>> in mind that GtkGrid uses the align and expand flags of
>> GtkWidget[2][3][4][5] instead of having expand and fill child
>> properties.
>>
>> As always, should you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.
>
> This is a massive change to existing GtkBuilder .ui files so I would
> suggest that somebody able to do xml and/or sed/grep magic would write a
> script that just replaces GtkTable with GtkGrid in existing .ui files. If
> that is included in gtk+ it would a lot of peoples lives easier.
>
> (Or of course, Javier could fix all modules in GNOME Git but I somehow
> doubt that he has the time...)

deprecated != gone.

There is no super-urgent need to rid the world of GtkTables - unless
you want your module to compile with disabled deprecations.