On 06/04/2015 05:02 AM, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > Hi; > > On 4 June 2015 at 12:42, Niels Nesse <nne...@sonic.net> wrote: > >>> Deprecated classes, properties, signals, and functions in GTK+ do not >>> go away until the major version of GTK+ is bumped. At that point, you >>> can keep targeting the previous major version of GTK or port to the >>> new major version, alongside with every other API changes we made in >>> between. It's important to note that we're not planning a major >>> version bump any time soon. >> >> I wasn't confused about the deprecation model. My question was more >> about what the consequence of the eventual removal might be. How would >> an application go about getting the same effect at GtkAlignment without >> using it directly? Again assuming values for scale and alignment that >> are fractional. > > The proper way would be to use their own custom widget for that. > > If the licensing terms allow it, you could even copy-paste > GtkAlignment in your project. > > Alternatively, you bundle your own version of GTK+ and never update > it; or you never update to GTK+ 4.0 until you decide to redesign your > UI. > > As I said, I personally think that using fractional alignments is > wrong and just a way to get around the fact that using pixel-precise > positioning is not something GTK recommends. When we implemented the > alignment properties for GtkWidget before releasing 3.0 we looked at > what people were using in open source projects, and we found that the > vast majority were using 0, 0.5, and 1.0 as alignment values — and the > few people that required different alignments were better served by > padding, margin, and spacing dependent on font size, not on fractions > of the parent widget's size. > > Ciao, > Emmanuele. >
That clears things up. I don't have any code that depends on a particular use of GtkAlignment BTW. I was just was wary about losing a possible tool. Since I can get similar functionality in a pinch in custom code I'll avoid addressing the issue in bug #745317. Thanks, Niels _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
