Re: Gnome/Gtk and thread safety

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

"Dan Maas" <dmaas dcine com> writes:

> > Hi, gtk+ and Gnome libraries are generally not thread safe.  Support for
> > multithreaded programs (GUI calls can be in different threads) is almost
> > an absolute requirement for a modern software framework.
> 
> Really? I have yet to see a situation where multithreading is truly
> necessary in a GUI application. It is easy to assume one needs threads when
> safer alternatives would suffice. What specific uses do you envision for a
> threaded GUI framework?

What's a safer alternative to avoiding blocking the UI on slow I/O
operations or the like? (Hint: main loop async callback based coding
is not it in most cases...)
 
 - Maciej