Re: nuking GtkData

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Salmaso Raffaele <raffaele salmaso libero it> writes:

> Il 31 Jan 2001 12:03:07 -0500, Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
> scrisse:
> 
> >Propose that we remove GtkData from the inheritance hierarchy; it has
> >no methods, it has one signal "disconnect" that GtkText connects to,
> >but AFAICS this signal is never emitted (and whatever purpose it used
> >to have is surely filled by "destroy" now). Let's make Tooltips and
> >Adjustment just derive from GtkObject.
> Doesn't it is better
> GtkTooltip -> GtkWidget

GtkTooltips isn't a widget, it's an object that can display a widget;
but you can't add it to a container, etc.

> GtkAdjustment -> GObject

You can't do this without breaking all the code that uses
gtk_signal_connect (adjustment, ...) and so forth, and the code
that depends on GtkAdjustment having ::destroy and being memory
managed like a GtkObject.

Regards,
                                        Owen