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List:       gtk-devel
Subject:    Re: Deprecations for 3.x
From:       Christian Dywan <christian () lanedo ! com>
Date:       2010-05-12 9:44:32
Message-ID: 20100512114432.5683d6d3 () gyokuro
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Am Wed, 12 May 2010 09:29:29 +0200
schrieb Cody Russell <bratsche@gnome.org>:

> I think it would be kind of nice to deprecate GtkStatusbar.  It's one
> of the more useless widgets we have, imo.  It basically serves two
> purposes:
> 
> 1/ Pushing and popping text messages.  This is a really terrible way
> to communicate information to users, imo.
> 2/ Corner resize grips.  I want to add support for this directly to
> GtkWindow anyway.
> 
> It just consumes precious vertical space without giving us much.
> 
> / Cody

I am curious, as GtkStatusbar is used in every second application,
about your suggestions on how to replace it in the typical use cases.

-- 
ciao,
    Christian
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