Why is GtkSourceView named just source for introspection

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Well his question may be justified:

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Historical reasons.

The widget was called GtkSourceView, with a namespace GtkSource to avoid collisions with GTK’s own namespace.

Then new ancillary API was added to the library, so the GtkSource namespace stuck, which is why now you have GtkSourceBuffer, GtkSourceLanguage, GtkSourceCompletion, etc.

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