Improve threading documentation
This commit just adds a small section to the threading documentation about the deprecation. More is needed here, including a migration example.
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							| @ -448,10 +448,6 @@ gdk_init (int *argc, char ***argv) | ||||
|  * which protects all use of GTK+. That is, only one thread can use GTK+ | ||||
|  * at any given time. | ||||
|  * | ||||
|  * Unfortunately the above holds with the X11 backend only. With the | ||||
|  * Win32 backend, GDK calls should not be attempted from multiple threads | ||||
|  * at all. | ||||
|  * | ||||
|  * You must call gdk_threads_init() before executing any other GTK+ or | ||||
|  * GDK functions in a threaded GTK+ program. | ||||
|  * | ||||
| @ -653,6 +649,19 @@ gdk_init (int *argc, char ***argv) | ||||
|  * } | ||||
|  * </programlisting> | ||||
|  * </informalexample> | ||||
|  * | ||||
|  * Unfortunately, all of the above documentation holds with the X11 | ||||
|  * backend only. With the Win32 backend, GDK and GTK+ calls should not | ||||
|  * be attempted from multiple threads at all. Combining the GDK lock | ||||
|  * with other locks such as the Python global interpreter lock can be | ||||
|  * complicated. | ||||
|  * | ||||
|  * For these reason, the threading support has been deprecated in | ||||
|  * GTK+ 3.6. Instead of calling GTK+ directly from multiple threads, | ||||
|  * it is recommended to use g_idle_add(), g_main_context_invoke() | ||||
|  * and similar functions to make these calls from the main thread | ||||
|  * instead. The main thread is the thread which has called gtk_init() | ||||
|  * and is running the GTK+ mainloop. | ||||
|  */ | ||||
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