Re: Minutes of the GTK+ Team Meeting - 2008-09-23

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 10:02 +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Why not simply keep gtk_hbox_new and gtk_vbox_new?
> 
> I can see a number of reasons for doing so:
> 
> 1) They are used all over the place
> 2) The cost of maintaining them are next to zero
> 3) They make sense on their own,
>     gtk_hbox_new instead of gtk_box_new (HORIZONTAL, ...)
> 
> I think removing the classes but keep gtk_hbox_new/gtk_vbox_new that  
> simply creates a GtkBox with the correct orientation is the right  
> approach here.

Yeah. I agree. Why are these bad? They are just helper functions (that
happens to be constructors). They don't hurt, and imho they make the
code more readable (by virtue of being less verbose).