Hi, I'd like to address the issue of recent changes in GTK 3.10, specifically the "deprecation" of options gtk-button-images & gtk-menu-images, also discussed in this bug report[1].
I think there are 2 things here: - First off, I believe removing those options is a wrong choice. If GNOME devs want to get rid of icons in menus/buttons on GNOME that's fine I guess, I certainly don't care as I don't use GNOME, but forcing it to devs & users of GTK applications (GNOME or not), isn't right. GTK isn't a private/internal component of GNOME, it's a public toolkit used by plenty of applications, and users, outside of GNOME. So I'd like for this to be reconsidered. But even outside of this, - Secondly, this "deprecation" wasn't handled correctly, IMHO. I've always put deprecation in quotes so far, because it doesn't feel like one, it feels more like a removal. And removal is bad, as it breaks things (user experience mostly, here). When functions are deprecated, they still exist and continue to work as before. The deprecation is only an indication that one shouldn't use this anymore (in newly written code), as you're aiming towards removal. _Aiming towards_, as in it currently keeps working just as before, so nothing breaks. With the so-called deprecation of those 2 options, things broke. Because they don't continue to work as before, they're simply ignored; This is wrong. Making matter worse, this didn't only remove the possibility for users to disable/remove icons in buttons and/or menus, but, since default value was TRUE, it forces them *not* to have them, as it is now enforced to FALSE! This pretty much _guarantees_ to break user experience. Again, this is wrong. So even if you decide to go through with this and *eventually* remove those options (though I hope not), this should remain a thing of the future. GTK 3.10.1 should IMO fix this by only having those options deprecated, as in they still exists and work as before, only it's recommended not to use them anymore as the *goal* is to eventually get rid of them. As a side note, I believe there's a documentation bug as well, since said documentation[2] doesn't even mention the fact that those options are deprecated/ignored (only a change of new default value to FALSE). (Unless the documentation is right, and those options should never have been ignored in the first place, only deprecated and have their default values changed?) Thanks, -jjacky [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=708674 [2] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.10/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-menu-images _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
