Re: Docs for the gtk-style-context branch changes

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Carlos Garnacho <carlosg gnome org> wrote:

> * GtkStateFlags is used in the theming layer, living side by side with
> GtkStateType (the latter is even used in the API i.e. when checking
> whether there is a running animation for a specific state).
> GtkStateFlags is potentially really useful, but practically isn't that
> much due to the higher layers having a single state set. Pushing
> GtkStateFlags to GtkWidget could do wonders in having implicit
> animations whenever a widget changes state.

I'm not sure that I know for sure what is going on there, but it feels
to me as though this would provide a fix for issues like this:

    https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407215

Having a widget's graphical state be a set of flags rather than a
single value would be a huge improvement overall.

--p