Re: enforcing construct only properties and gnome-session

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:

> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 15:17, Tim Janik wrote:
>
> > > [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129899
> >
> > unfortunately that bug report doesn't give enough background.
> > e.g. why did setting construct properties work at all before?
>
> Because gobject didn't prevent them from being set after construction.

that's beside the point. why did the property setter accept a
construct property after construction time? if it always does so,
the property in question should probably not be a construct property.

> The Perl bindings for libgnome exploited this to wrap
> gnome_program_init:  We call gnome_program_init with GNOME_PARAM_NONE
> first and later use g_object_set_property to set the specified
> properties.

so, if that worked after construction, the property prolly doesn't need
to be a construct property.

>
> Bye,
> -Torsten
>

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ciaoTJ