On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Cosimo Cecchi <cosi...@gnome.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 1:09 AM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpie...@mecheye.net> > wrote: > >> Cosimo talks about GtkPopover and GtkMenu, but those just sort of have me >> stunned. Why should I use one instead of the other? >> > > I doubt application authors choose which widget to use by reading type > names in API references; > Assuming that questions on Stack Overflow are an approximate poll of what application authors do - many application authors go to the documentation and do exactly that. (And often don't bother to read any further - I've often enough seen questions about a deprecated widget such as GtkList which was selected purely based on its name.) > if you're following a style guide like the HIG, the recommendation will > come from there. > Other times you will want a widget that looks/works like one you've seen > elsewhere, and the visual/behavioral difference will make it obvious why > there are two different classes. > This also happens, though - people will post a screenshot and say "What is this widget?" We could make the Widget Gallery page more discoverable in the documentation in order to encourage this. -- Philip
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