[Gtk-sharp-list] About Gtk# design

Miguel de Icaza miguel@ximian.com
24 Apr 2003 12:59:00 -0400


Hey,

> When I say identical to Gtk+, I'm talking about the functionality, the
> concepts, etc. (struct-iterators, method names, etc...). This is what
> now is Gtk#.
> 
> But I think that we must change the design of, for example, Iterators.
> Also we can get out the use of GLib, because I think that all classes in
> GLib can be obtained from CTS.

So you are advocating a more complete wrapping, rather than a thinner
wrapping.  Is that what you mean?

You will notice that plenty of work is going on in cleaning up the API:
removing private classes, removing ugly APIs, replacing it with .NET-ish
APIs, renaming methods to fit the pattern, etc.

Miguel