Re: Are Out-of-Tree Widgets Second-Class Citizens?

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

On 09/28/2009 06:11 PM, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> I'm not sure if the solution Morten advocates -- namely, applying
> the GSEAL principle internally -- is the best one, although maybe
> it is.

It's not even necessary.  Gtk can access struct members directly if
desired (for performance reasons, or whatever), but the API should
expose them for subclasser use as well.

I doubt this was done "maliciously"; the hostility shown in this thread
seems a bit silly to me.  I imagine some of these missing bits just got
lost in the shuffle in the effort to clean up the public interfaces.
It's not like the gtk maintainers are unreasonable; I bet a patch to
expose the needed functionality would be accepted.

	-brian