diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index cf6c4e2bd..0620731a3 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-05-21  Mike Kestner  <mkestner@novell.com>
+
+	* gtk/Application.cs (CurrentEvent): use Event.GetEvent to retrieve
+	an explicit event subclass.
+
 2008-05-15  Mike Kestner  <mkestner@novell.com>
 
 	* kill the makefile.win32 build system.  it has been unmaintained
diff --git a/gtk/Application.cs b/gtk/Application.cs
index 05673afb6..46bb93244 100755
--- a/gtk/Application.cs
+++ b/gtk/Application.cs
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ namespace Gtk {
 
 		public static Gdk.Event CurrentEvent {
 			get {
-				return new Gdk.Event (gtk_get_current_event ());
+				return Gdk.Event.GetEvent (gtk_get_current_event ());
 			}
 		}