On 3 May 2017 at 13:00, <gtk-devel-list-requ...@gnome.org> wrote:

> From: Murray Cumming <murr...@murrayc.com>
> To: Timm B?der <m...@baedert.org>
> Cc: gtk-devel-list <gtk-devel-list@gnome.org>
> Subject: Re: gtk4: gtk_box_pack_start()/end() porting
> Message-ID: <1493810933.18452.1.ca...@murrayc.com>
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>
> On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 17:50 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 17:20 +0200, Timm B?der wrote:
> > > I've added notes about the fill and expand child properties to the
> > > migration guide:
> > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/?id=bb1deaafa42ccb03929d3c
> > > d5
> > > fdab685218bbac29
> >
> > Thanks. I guess it's that last part about hexpand/vexpand affecting
> > the
> > parent widgets too that explains what I've seen so far. So there is
> > really no simple mapping from the old API to the new API. Porting is
> > going to be rather awkward.
>
> Have some container widgets changed, or lost, some default
> spacing/padding/margins too? For instance, it looks like GtkActionBar
> used to have some hard-coded spacing between its child widgets (added
> via gtk_action_bar_pack_start()), but not with gtk4.
>


Based on some commits I remember seeing, I think the new policy is that
widgets should not enforce such properties. Which, IMO, is a good thing,
though again potentially a pain for porting.
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