Re: Why is GCompletion deprecated

[Xavier Claessens <xclaesse gmail com>]

Le 28/06/10 11:56, Xavier Claessens a écrit :
> Hello GLib devs,
>
> I upgraded to latest glib, and I discover that GCompletion is now
> deprecated. Empathy was using it to complete the nickname when hitting
> TAB in chatrooms.
>
> I see nothing to replace that API... am I supposed to copy/paste its
> code inside Empathy?!?
>
> Is there a good reason to deprecated that code?!?

When discussing this on IRC, Emmanuele Bassi said that API is barely 
used, is not maintained and has bugs that needs API break to fix.

But:

1) I can think a bazillion of UIs that do/should have completion. Maybe 
they can do that completion with something else than GCompletion, but 
then the deprecation warning in the gtk-doc should point to that other 
API. Probably GtkEntryCompletion is useful here, but can it be used with 
editable GtkTextView (what empathy uses to write IM)?

2) If all unmaintained code should be deprecated with no replacement, 
what do we have left in glib/gtk? Probably not that much...

3) What are the issues with current GCompletion exactly? It works pretty 
well in empathy's case at least. I would like to know the issues so we 
can think about better API to replace GCompletion.

Surely good reasons where discussed with the community before 
deprecating the API, but I didn't find public discussion. If I missed 
it, please just give me the link ;-)

Regards,
Xavier Claessens.