Re: BalsaIndex ported to GtkTreeView

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield MindSpring com>]

On 2002.07.09 11:44 Emmanuel wrote:
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> I have not actually read the code, just your comments about the speed 
> concerns. If I understand well, moving messages has to be done the 
> hard way (sic ;-) because of the insufficiencies of GtkTreeView.

Either that, or I'm missing an obvious way to do it!

> Perhaps should we ask to the gtk+ developpers for this feature,

I'm looking at the gtk+ code right now to get a sense of how big a job 
it would be.

> moreover I'm sure we're not the only one to need this.

You're right: 
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-app-devel-list/2002-June/msg00068.html

> If this is not planned as a new feature for the GtkTreeView, the idea 
> to speed the threading (I think this is the worst problem) to do it 
> in two stages : a light structure keeping all relevant datas for the 
> threading (perhaps only a ref. ), and after fill the Tree.

That works for the initial threading, but we also need to rethread when 
new messages arrive, preferably without rebuilding the tree from 
scratch. We *could* go to separate methods for each action, but that 
would be annoying! All in all, getting the natural capabilities into 
the gtk+ code seems like the better route.