GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 594903
Deprecate GtkInputDialog
Last modified: 2009-10-16 14:08:01 UTC
I propose to deprecate GtkInputDialog. It is very rarely used, except for Inkscape or GIMP and doesn't make much sense in GTK+. It seems more useful to me to let graphics applications maintain their own widget which gives them a lot more flexibility than having to depend on a poorly maintained widget.
Created attachment 142999 [details] [review] Deprecate GtkInputDialog
Getting rid of GtkInputDialog sounds reasonable to me - input devices need to be configured for the desktop not the app, and most of the config that that widget does goes away with xinput2 anyways. That does of course, bring up the point that someoen should actually do the work to hook GTK+ up to XInput2. (Would have been great in fact if that had happened before XInput2 was released so there was real world testing, but to late for that now...)
There's the xi2 branch where Carlos is doing that work. I admit that I haven't payed attention to it yet... http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gtk+/log/?h=xi2
So may I commit the deprecation of GtkInputDialog?
Sounds ok to me.
Pushed to master.