> the API reference page on GDK and threads says: > > """ > [ .. ] Several problems with that: 1) Not every person reached this page. For example, the developer of oxygen didn't, and didn't known aboyr gdk_threads_add_timeout until I told him about it (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306671). There should be something that points developers to it, becuase this happens repeatedly. 2) There are various discussions and commits talking about gdk threading deperacated, and as you can see from the bug above, people interpret to mean that they should not use GDK threading functions, even in GTK 2 and GTK 3. There should be a document that says what you said, that they need to be used before GTK4, in a place that developers know that they need to read. 3) The problem in (2) is made worse by the fact that the new documentation in 3.6 actually tell people to use g_idle_add. For example, in this commit: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/commits-list/2012-July/msg07237.html There is apparently new comment for GDK_THREAD_ENTER saying: + * Deprecated:3.6: Use g_main_context_invoke(), g_idle_add() and related + * functions if you need to schedule GTK+ calls from other threads. That is true only for code that does not need to work with GTK 2 and GTK 3. In GTK 2 and GTK 3 you need to use gdk_threads_add_idle and friends (which will also work in GTK 4), but there is no way to work this out from this comment. Instead, this comment should be: Deprecated:3.6: see <this page> and <this page> is a guidelines page, containing more or less what you wrote in your first reply. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
