Bug 93255

Summary: GTK threaded animation example on website uses obsolete functions
Product: cairo Reporter: Kota Weaver <kota.weaver>
Component: generalAssignee: Chris Wilson <chris>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: cairo-bugs mailing list <cairo-bugs>
Severity: trivial    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
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Description Kota Weaver 2015-12-04 23:15:22 UTC 
On http://cairographics.org/examples/ the first example under the "Animation" header is "threaded animation with cairo" which can be found here: http://cairographics.org/threaded_animation_with_cairo/

The problem is this requires the use of deprecated functions in GObject and GDK, namely:
 - g_thread_supported()
 - g_thread_init()
 - gdk_threads_init()
 - gdk_threads_enter()
 - gdk_threads_leave()
and perhaps others.

While setting up another example would likely take some work, I figure a reasonable thing to do at this point would be to have a warning at the top of the page mentioning that the example is outdated and uses obsolete techniques.
Comment 1 Bryce Harrington 2015-12-09 19:28:34 UTC 
Would you be interested in providing a better re-implementation of the example?

If not, I think I'd favor removing the example entirely.
Comment 2 Kota Weaver 2015-12-09 19:43:05 UTC 
Yeah, I would love to do that.
Comment 3 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-25 13:56:13 UTC 
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