Re: GLib String support

2008-08-11 Thread Colin Leroy
On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:10:10 +0200, Mathias Hasselmann wrote: Hi, > They needlessly limit the range of > characters a application can process, and even more important: They > add a vast amount of complexity to your program. Programmers really > should not have to think about locale issues. Emai

Re: GTK+ 2.13.6 released

2008-08-05 Thread Colin Leroy
On 05 August 2008 at 14h08, Matthias Clasen wrote: Hi, > * GtkFileChooser has a GFile-oriented API now, functions > for creating filechoosers with specific backends have been > deprecated, since GIO is used directly. Is there any easier way to find out what's being deprecated with each rele

Re: About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things

2008-07-17 Thread Colin Leroy
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:55:59 +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote: Hi, > A suggestion that came up in the post-guadec discussions was to move > deprecated widgets to libgtk3-compat instead of removing them. This > means that applications using these will have to add that as a > dependency to his c

Re: About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things

2008-07-16 Thread Colin Leroy
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:25:43 -0400, Owen Taylor wrote: Hi, > Hmm, strangely most code worked fine with GTK+ 2.0 with a recompile... > (e.g., I remember doing that for gftp, not a trivial app.) Probably not trivial, but 30k LOCs is much less than Claws ;) > Porting to GtkCList and GtkCTree was w

Re: About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things

2008-07-16 Thread Colin Leroy
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:18:24 +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote: Hi, > It sure would lessen the burden for applications still using > deprecated widgets (which is the hard part of the ABI break). Well, the hardest part in my opinion, for free software at least, is the API break :-) There's something

Re: About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things

2008-07-16 Thread Colin Leroy
On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:51:03 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote: Hi, > IMO, if you're still using GtkCTree and GtkCList, which were > deprecated when GTK+ 2.0 was released 6 years ago, you're asking for > trouble. Well, they do work for us. When GTK+ 2.0 was released six years ago, we were already too

About GTK+ 3.0 and deprecated things

2008-07-16 Thread Colin Leroy
Hello, I've read the PDF at http://people.imendio.com/kris/gtk-state-of-the-union-2008.pdf I am wondering what the options will be for users of the GTK lib, that still use deprecated widgets? In the project I work for, we do have a lot of them: [claws-mail/src]$ grep -r GtkItemFactory *|wc -l 1

Just pointing out a GtkTextView micro-patch

2006-11-13 Thread Colin Leroy
Hi guys, Following a conversation on IRC's #bugs, i'd like to bring this little bug, that has an extremely simple patch to it, to your attention: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356255 The patch fixes the fact that the cursor goes one word to the right with Control+GDK_KP_Left (not