LibGUI: Turn GUI::Application::the() into a pointer

During app teardown, the Application object may be destroyed before
something else, and so having Application::the() return a reference was
obscuring the truth about its lifetime.

This patch makes the API more honest by returning a pointer. While
this makes call sites look a bit more sketchy, do note that the global
Application pointer only becomes null during app teardown.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Libraries/LibGUI/Application.h b/Libraries/LibGUI/Application.h
index e669ea4a79..03960f2b30 100644
--- a/Libraries/LibGUI/Application.h
+++ b/Libraries/LibGUI/Application.h
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ class Application : public Core::Object {
     C_OBJECT(Application);
 
 public:
-    static Application& the();
+    static Application* the();
 
     ~Application();