Re: GTK_FLOATING broken in 2.9?

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Morten Welinder wrote:

> > before starting to investigate in ugly hacks to continue maintaining the
> > current GTK_FLOATING semantics with GtkObject, i'd really like to raise
> > the issue that people/langauge bnindings most probably never should be
> > setting GTK_FLOATING with GTK_OBJECT_SET_FLAGS. besides the obvious
> > implementation, the only case i saw so far where this was need is
> > in GtkMenu.
>
> Gnumeric's use is in go_combo_popup_reparent which pretty much mirrors
> gtk_menu_reparent.
>
> Note, that GTK_OBJECT_SET_FLAGS is a macro.  Fixing it will not help
> programs compiled against, say, gtk+ 2.6 headers.  If the user updates
> gtk+, the application breaks, i.e., no ABI stability.

yes, i'm fully aware of that, it was listed as possible impact
in the original thread:
  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2005-September/msg00165.html

> Do we _really_ need this ABI change or can it wait for gtk+ 3?

this is the very subject of the current discussion ;)

> Morten

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