Re: new widget

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

plex <dadler@gwdg.de> writes:

> hi folx,
> i'm just in need of some widget classes, so here are my suggestions what i
> would like to contribute and some general questions about the starting point
> 
> AreaList
> 
> a list that does not order their items in a horizontal list but in a sorted
> direction, like the icon-view of gmc or the pattern-selection in gimp (which
> is otherwised implemented) 
> I thought about a widget class, where the programmer can set the direction in
> which the items are layed out, and if the widget got resized, the items reorder.
> I searched the widget tree but didn't find any of it. So if there is a need
> for it, I'll write it. I need it for a fixed-size pixmap-pattern chooser.

If I understand what you are talking about, Tim Janik implemented
a widget called GtkWrapBox recently that does pretty much this,
which he wanted to put in GTK+-1.3

(Tim - is this available somewhere?) 

> as a second important meta-object, i'll implement and extend the GtkDialog with
> some aspects of usability.
> Applications can open their dialogs (file-selection, color-selection and
> application-specifics...) through a dialog-manager. Think about color-pickers,
> font-pickers and other popup-buttons.
> The user/programmer maybe don't like to have many requesters open, or maybe only
> one per class. Maybe he doesn't like confirmation-buttons and just want have
> realtime-reaction or maybe modal ones.
> 
> here's a list of attributes a dialog-manager could have:
> 
> - open ONE_PER_CLASS, ONE_AT_ALL, ALL new dialogs
>   (if ONE_PER_CLASS or ONE_AT_ALL, he give the output-focus of the dialog to the
>    new client, if it is already opened)
> - CONFIRMATION
> - MODAL
> 
> please give me a feedback if something of the above can be usefull for us all,

I can't see this going into GTK+ proper. GTK+ doesn't try to organize
the high-level structure of an application.  This seems like a higher
level thing that belongs in a separate library, or maybe in GNOME.

Regards,
                                        Owen