Re: Review of Keybindings [Re: Dia's user interface]

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Sat, 04 May 2002, Hans Breuer wrote:
> At 12:33 03.05.02 -0500, Lars Clausen wrote:
>> [...]
>>
>>You know, I just noticed that you can have a tabbing widget with the tabs
>>to the left.  It's not quite a tree, but with the reorganization we
>>talked about earlier, it would probably be nicer, and it should be easy
>>to change into a tree if so desired.  I believe the tree widget is
>>getting an overhaul in Gtk2.0, so that change may need to wait until
>>then.
>>
> Since Gtk+ 2.0 was released on 11th of March it should possiblly read: 
> The tree widget already got an advanced replacement, or from the 
> official release announcement:
> 
> [...]
> New widgets and widget improvements:
>   [...]
> 
>   * GtkTreeView - a flexible widget for tree and list display, with
>     features such as a model-view split for abstracting data storage
>     from display, the ability to create custom models to accommodate
>     large data sets, versatile display/rendering features, and 
>     editable data cells.
> [...]
> See: 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-March/msg00228.html

Yes, I looked at the docs (they really need some snapshots), and it doesn't
look like there's a direct equivalent of the tabbing environment.  I'm sure
it's easy to make, but it won't be in Glade, at least for a while.

-Lars

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