On Mon, 2015-02-02 at 19:07 +0100, Markus Kolb wrote: > Hi, > > what should be used instead of the Gtk::Stock labels on buttons? > > The documentation is not really helpful: > "Stock items have been recommended for use in buttons. From gtkmm-3.10 > they are deprecated. They should not be used in newly-written code. > However, the documentation of namespace Gtk::Stock shows recommended > labels and named icons to show in buttons."
Yes, that text, from here, https://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/unstable/gtkmm-tutorial.html is a bit odd. The gtkmm tutorial (book) is out of date in many places now due to the many deprecations and API additions in GTK+ (and therefore gtkmm) over the years. Unfortunately recent GTK+ deprecations often lack proper explanation. We try to discover the reasoning, but often we just have to make gtkmm's documentation repeat the vague statements that are in the GTK+ documentation > e.g. > extern GTKMM_API const Gtk::BuiltinStockID CANCEL; /*!< @image html > gtk-cancel.png > * @deprecated Do not > use an icon. Use label "_Cancel". */ > > The Gtk::Stock:: stuff had translation "built-in". So do we have to > translate the default system buttons on ourself again. Yes, I find that really annoying too. I believe that the logic is that the translation would be very context dependent anyway. But I don't find that very convincing. > Or what should be > used? You can continue to use them, or just assume that they don't exist, I'm afraid. -- Murray Cumming murr...@murrayc.com www.murrayc.com _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
