Show desktop deprecated function.

Ori Bernstein ori at eigenstate.org
Sun Aug 26 06:34:31 CEST 2007


On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:47:37 -0300
"Alexandre Moreira" <alexandream at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello, everyone.
> 
> I was just reading "Show Desktop" code so I could learn a bit about
> panel plug-in programming and I noticed a small oddity.
> 
> Show desktop uses the deprecated gtk_object_sink() instead of
> g_object_ref_sink in it's free_data function [1]. Is there any reason
> why we use this function or is it just there because it's there ?

At an educated guess, it's because that code predates g_object_ref_sink(),
or at least predates the wide deployment of GTK releases that
supported it.

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