Re: UI Question/Suggestion

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 05/12/2003, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> Am 11.05.03 19:29 schrieb(en) Peter Bloomfield:
>> It is--but I figured out some of it, in porting to gtk+-2, so I 
>> could lend a hand, if we decided to go that route...
> 
> O.k., after half a night of playing around and shamelessly copying 
> code from the demos, I have the semi-semi-semi-working result 
> below... "Content" shows all the stuff you see now. Of course, there 
> are no popups yet, selections don't work, I have to learn how to 
> destroy the tree, it's just the tree display.

Albrecht, this rocks!

> *If* we follow this route, IMHO we should keep everything, including 
> the icon list (and possibly the embedded header stuff - still have to 
> find it) in the Contents part,

Well, the old icon list is officially obsolete, if not deprecated, so 
we'll have to find a replacement at some point--might as well be now!

> and maybe add a checkbutton in the View menu to hide the notebook 
> completely (thus you see exactly what you have now).

For myself, I'd prefer to have only content on the content page when 
the notebook is being used, but it's not a big deal to me.

Peter