The model API was an ad hoc addition to Clutter, back in the 0.6 days,
that was needed because GLib did not offer anything of sort, and the
only model-like storage was inside GTK+. The API design was heavily
based on GtkTreeModel and friends, with column-based collections of
generic data.
Since then, the model API inside Clutter has not really been integrated
in the core API; on the other hand, GIO has grown a model API, and it's
seeing more use in the platform.
This means that the ClutterModel API should finally be deprecated, and
we should move code to the GListModel API inside GIO.
ClutterListModel has been added as a terminal class in case we
decided to change API or implementation.
Apparently, it's a lot more resilient than we expected -- or far
too few are using it and reporting bugs. Once common issue, though,
is that it cannot be subclassed, hence it's fairly limited in its
usage.
In the hope that more developers will start using it, here's a
patch that makes ListModel a fully subclassable object.
May whatever god you believe in have mercy on your eventual soul.
* clutter/Makefile.am:
* clutter/clutter.h:
* clutter/clutter-list-model.[ch]: Complete the ClutterModelDefault
to ClutterListModel rename by renaming the source files
