Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 18:26 -0300, Johan Dahlin wrote:
> 
>> gtkbuildable.h
>> ==============
>>
>> GtkBuildable is an interface which is implementable to allow a GObject
>> subclass to customize the behavior of how it is going to be built.
> 
> Some of the GtkBuildable methods have very generic names which can
> become problematic for language bindings that support the usual method
> calling semantics.

Oops, I didn't quite think of that. Thanks for paying attention.

>>   void          (* set_name)            (GtkBuildable  *buildable,
>>                                          const gchar   *name);
>>   const gchar * (* get_name)            (GtkBuildable  *buildable);
> 
> These theoretically collide with GtkWidget::set_name and get_name.
> Fortunately though, as you say, GtkWidget overrides them to make both
> versions do the same.  So no big problem here.
> 
>>   void          (* add)                 (GtkBuildable  *buildable,
>>                                          GtkBuilder    *builder,
>>                                          GObject       *child,
>>                                          const gchar   *type);
> 
> This collides with GtkContainer::add.  If you have an instance of
> GtkContainer, what should instance.add(...) resolve to?  As an
> alternative, add_child() comes to mind.  The name's not really
> GtkBuildable specific enough either, but at least it doesn't seem to
> collide with any existing method.

add_child sounds like a better name here, to avoid a conflict.

>>   void          (* set_property)        (GtkBuildable  *buildable,
>>                                          GtkBuilder    *builder,
>>                                          const gchar   *name,
>>                                          const GValue  *value);
> 
> This collides with GObject::set_property.  Maybe set_buildable_property?

or buildable_set_property.

Can you open a bug and set it as a blocker?

Bonus points if a patch is included ;)

Johan
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