I'm also using the real types in my declarations, though I'm paying
the price with casts.
And here I mean:
GtkMenuItem *dir_or_not = GTK_MENU_ITEM
(gtk_menu_item_new_with_label ("Or not"));
gtk_menu_shell_append (GTK_MENU_SHELL (directory_filter_menu),
GTK_WIDGET (dir_or_not));
The price I'm paying here is GTK_MENU_ITEM and GTK_WIDGET. Which would
both go away with another convention.
As I said, I believe if the convention was changed to return the real
types most of the GTK programs would not have an increase in the number
of casts (now that GUIs are built with GtkBuilder). But who knows.
I guess this wouldn't even change the ABI (??) it would just cause old
code to compile with warnings (except those who build with -Werr ;-) ).
Well in any case let's forget it, I guess it's impossible to change this
by now, so this is all just rhetorical. But thanks for the clarifications.
emmanuel
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