Benjamin Otte authored Dec 21, 2010 and Matthias Clasen committed Dec 21, 2010

We want to have different window types for different displays, so we can
write code like this:

  #if GDK_WINDOWING_X11
    if (GDK_IS_X11_WINDOW (window))
      {
        /* do x11 stuff */
      }
    else
  #endif
  #if GDK_WINDOWING_WAYLAND
    if (GDK_IS_WAYLAND_WINDOW (window))
      {
        /* do wayland stuff */
      }
    else
  #endif
      {
        /* do stuff for unsupported system */
    }

This requires different GdkWindow types and we currently don't have
that, as only the GdkWindowImpl differs. With this method, every backend
defines a custom type that's just a simple subclass of GdkWindow. This
way GdkWindow behaves like all the other types (visuals, screens,
displays) and we can write code like the above.