On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Philip Chimento <philip.chime...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would hazard a guess that most people don't load up the docs' index
> page, but instead land on pages directly by googling - and so don't see the
> "Deprecated Widgets" section. For example if I google "gtk list widget" a
> GtkList tutorial page is the fourth result. [1] Although admittedly, that
> doesn't explain why someone wouldn't click on one of the perfectly fine top
> three results.
>

What's bad is that for such a search the third result, and the only one
from gtk.org, which I would consider a reputable source if I'm looking for
information on GTK, is a really old tutorial for GTK 1.2 [1].
Searching for "gtk tutorial" also gives suboptimal results, where none of
the hits in the first page refers to the currently maintained version
(first result is coming from developer.gnome.org, but it's very outdated
[2]).

I realize keeping those guides up to date is a lot of work, but I think we
should at least purge information that is actively misleading, such as the
GTK 1.2 guide, or clearly mark it as deprecated with links to newer
alternatives, which do exist on developer.gnome.org.

[1] http://www.gtk.org/tutorial1.2/gtk_tut-31.html
[2] https://developer.gnome.org/gtk-tutorial/stable/

Cosimo
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