gtkmm instead of gtk

Nick Brown <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
I notice that C++ re-write of Pan still uses gtk directly from C.
Is there are reason for this, instead of using the C++ bindings for gtk?
These provide a true C++ object interface to gtk.
http://www.gtkmm.org/

Would a port to gtkmm be possible/desirable?

Cheers,
Nick
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