[Inkscape-devel] Private implementations of widgets

Hello All,

Just wondering if we ever came up with a coding style for the private components of our widgets and dialogs. Our GUI components, for example, the dialog in [1] contain many different Gtk widgets (rather than pointers/refs to widgets) and so we need to include lots of <gtkmm/*.h> headers in our GUI class definitions.

If the embedded widgets were replaced by references to objects, we could just use forward declarations of the appropriate classes and then pull the header inclusions into the relevant .cpp files so it should improve our compilation times.

Is there a reason why we don't do more of this already?

AV

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~inkscape.dev/inkscape/trunk/view/head:/src/ui/d...