Re: Gtk+ Recent files updates

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 21:28 +0200, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi Murray,
> 
> On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 21:01 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > The GtkRecentFilterInfo struct should be registered as a boxed type,
> > ideally with a copy function, so it can be used more easily by language
> > bindings.
> 
> The GtkRecentFilterInfo structure is similar to GtkFileFilterInfo, which
> is not a boxed type either.  Do you want both to become boxed types?

I'd prefer that yes.

> It's a real question - not a rhetorical one: making GtkRecentFilterInfo
> a boxed type makes a compelling motive for GtkFileFilterInfo to become a
> boxed type too[1]; we would be braking ABI, though.

Why?

>   On the other hand,
> the same code bindings are using to convert a GtkFileFilterInfo to
> whatever native type they are using could be easily replicated for
> GtkRecentFilterInfo.

Is this going to work for introspection?

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