Re: GTK_FLOATING broken in 2.9?

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Morten Welinder wrote:

> Could we at the type-level have a flag controlling whether the glib-
> level should create a floating ref or a pre-sinked ref?

that wouldn't quite work out i think.

> Anything derived from GtkObject could then set it to "pre-sinked"
> and GTK+ could do its own floating ref handling.  That ought to
> ensure ABI compatibility, but would it do whatever it is that
> people want from floating refs?

nope, g_object_ref_sink() wouldn't have the same effect as 
gtk_object_ref+gtk_object_sink then.

> Morten

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