Comment by lelanthran

> Well then imagine if Gtk made you write `struct GtkLabel`, etc. and you saw hundreds of `struct` on the screen taking up space in heavy UI code. Sometimes abstractions are worthwhile.

TBH, in that case the GtkLabel (and, indeed, the entire widget hierarchy) should be opaque pointers anyway.

If you're not using a struct as an abstraction, then don't typedef it. If you are, then hide the damn fields.