[pygtk] Re: gnome.ui.App.install_menus_hints missing?

[Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro]

On Ter, 2006-05-30 at 03:54 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 11:50:38PM +0100, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro wrote:
> > Seg, 2006-05-29 às 14:04 +0200, Axel Thimm escreveu:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > (is this the right place to ask about gnome-python?)
> > > 
> > > I'd like to use gnome.ui.App.install_menus_hints. I can see them in
> > > ui.defs, but they are not available. Other methods in the vicinity of
> > > the install_menus_hints definition like flash or errors are. Is my
> > > gnome-python built incorrectly (Fedora Core 5)?
> > 
> >   Not all methods declared in the .defs can be wrapped; some require
> > manual coding (see for example the "wnck.Window.get_geometry missing?"
> > thread earlier on this list).
> > 
> >   I'm not taking requests[1] to wrap missing functions in gnome.ui which
> > can be accomplished through gtk.UIManager instead.
> 
> OK, that gave me the right push. I looked around and found a way to do
> it with gtk.UIManager. It's quite hairy though, but I guess the extra
> complexity is the price of extra flexibilty.
> 
> > You should know that gnome.ui is mostly deprecated, apart from some
> > very specialized functions not found elsewhere.
> 
> I'm just taking a first dive into gtk/gnome world, so I have no idea
> what the current trends are. Is the statement above generally valid,
> or mostly for python bindings only? E.g. is libgnomeui scheduled to be
> subsumed completely in gtk one day, so we should avoid also bits that
> are not yet deprecated (like GnomeApp and GnomeAppBar)?

  See:

  http://live.gnome.org/ProjectRidley?highlight=%28ridley%29

  Regards.

-- 
Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
<gjc at inescporto.pt> <gustavo at users.sourceforge.net>
The universe is always one step beyond logic.
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