Re: Deprecations for 3.x

[Christian Dywan <christian lanedo com>]

Am Wed, 12 May 2010 09:29:29 +0200
schrieb Cody Russell <bratsche gnome org>:

> I think it would be kind of nice to deprecate GtkStatusbar.  It's one
> of the more useless widgets we have, imo.  It basically serves two
> purposes:
> 
> 1/ Pushing and popping text messages.  This is a really terrible way
> to communicate information to users, imo.
> 2/ Corner resize grips.  I want to add support for this directly to
> GtkWindow anyway.
> 
> It just consumes precious vertical space without giving us much.
> 
> / Cody

I am curious, as GtkStatusbar is used in every second application,
about your suggestions on how to replace it in the typical use cases.

-- 
ciao,
    Christian