Re: Please don't drop support for Curve

[David King <davidk openismus com>]

Charlie, I think that you forgot to send this to the mailing list.

On 2011-05-04 11:05, Charlie De <charliecoeli yahoo com> wrote:
> Well, I'm stunned, this is depressing!
>
> What hurt or damage would it have done to have left the widget in? None
> whatsoever. It leaves me wondering if you guys know what business you're in? One
> would think you're in the business of offering solutions and improving them, not
> removing them for no good reason.

The reasoning given in the GTK+ 2 documentation was that GtkCurve ‘is 
too specialized’, which seems reasonable. The original discussion was on 
Bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556263

which led to the deprecation, and the removal occurred a while later:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=74e68444883c15cb19c1338a2052172fb9f15d0a

> Where is the oversight of your team, to allow you to act so arbitrarily? I mean,
> how do we know that something that's in the toolkit now, isn't going to be
> removed later, with no replacement offered other than "learn how to create your
> own widgets". This is beyond ridiculous!

The replies from Dov and Danielle seem constructive. I would add that 
UFRaw has a custom curve widget that may be even better than GtkCurve 
for your use case:

http://ufraw.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/ufraw/ufraw/curveeditor_widget.c?view=markup

Admittedly, maintaining your own custom widget will require more work 
than if the widget were included in the toolkit, but you mentioned that 
GtkCurve was basic, and the only way to add features would be to create 
your own widget.

> Have a nice day, you bunch of bums.
>
> Charlie
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: David King <davidk openismus com>
> > To: gtk-devel-list gnome org
> > Sent: Wed, May 4, 2011 1:09:22 PM
> > Subject: Re: Please don't drop support for Curve
> >
> > On 2011-05-04 03:22, Charlie De <charliecoeli yahoo com>  wrote:
> > >I've joined up with this list for one single reason: to ask the  developers
> to
> > >re-consider and reverse their decision to deprecate and  eventually remove
> the
> > >Curve widget from GTK+.
> >
> > GtkCurve was already  removed in GTK+ 3. It was deprecated in GTK+ 2.20
> > but will remain in GTK+ 2  to preserve API and ABI  compatibility.