Re: GtkCurve

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 10 Sep 2001, Owen Taylor wrote:

> 
> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> 
> > GtkCurve, GammaCurve, and Ruler are not deprecated right now; were
> > these intentional?
> 
> In our original discussion on this, we decided against deprecating
> things simply because we didn't feel they shouldn't have been
> found in GTK until there was some new place to put them.
> 
> Anything that we deprecate either needs to be completely useless,
> or we need to have a firm recommendation for what people should
> do instead. If we deprecate these widgets now, our recommendation
> will have to be that they cut-and-paste-and-rename into their
> own code. 
> 
> Do we want to make that recommendation?

certainly not.
i wouldn't add GtkRuler to gtk these days, but since we already
have them, and they are sane widgets, we should keep them.
in the end, this is still the Gimp ToolKit, and gimp uses them, right? ;)

> 
>                                         Owen
> 

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ciaoTJ