Re: gdk threads ...

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 08:07 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> hi Michael,
> 
> On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 12:11 +0000, Michael Meeks wrote:
> > 	Does that mean you're removing gdk_threads_enter and leave and the
> > semantics around that ? is there some cunning new scheme proposed to
> > intercept the mainloop and ensure that events / idle / timeout emissions
> > hooked in by the toolkit can have applications add lock/unlock pairs ?
> 
> We're not removing -- only deprecating.

The deprecation does not seem to have happened in GTK+ 3.4:
http://developer.gnome.org/gdk3/3.4/gdk3-Threads.html#gdk-threads-enter

Is it still planned?

> The removal will come in GTK4.  There will be no replacement
> functionality -- you will just be expected to do all your interaction
> with the toolkit from the main thread (ie: dispatching results via
> idles).

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