On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 19:16 +0200, Juan Rafael García Blanco wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’ve observed that subclasses of Gtk::Container tend to declare properties on 
> their children. In the gtkmm source code I’ve read that they are used for 
> theming so that there is no point in wrapping them. Does this currently hold?

Probably not.

>  IMO there is no such difference between properties and child properties.

A child property is just a property of a container's child, such as it's
alignment or whether it should expand, I think. I'm sure they are
useful, if we can find a nice API for it. But it might not be necessary
to use the generic property API. Maybe all the functions do what we need
already. I don't know.

-- 
Murray Cumming
murr...@murrayc.com
www.murrayc.com


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