Re: enhancement to GtkList

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Brian Bruns <camber ais org> writes: 
> So, my question is.  Is this something that would be of interest
> generally for GTK or should I be packaging this separately with my
> application?

We probably need a widget like this when adding a new file selector
(most likely in version 2.2). However I'd guess we'd start from
scratch since GtkList is deprecated in 2.0.

Most likely the new widget would be a GtkIconList and would have the
ability to do a file-manager kind of view as well, i.e. with icons
above the text.

Alternatively we may just use GtkTreeView for the file selector in
2.2, to avoid having to do an icon list in that timeframe. The filesel
hasn't been designed yet, so it's hard to say.

I created this bug to track the icon list feature, which is probably 
wanted regardless of the filesel:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69819

Any design comments, patches, etc. would be welcome on that bug.  New
widgets will need a spec as a basis for discussion (writeup of similar
widgets in other toolkits, intended use-cases, etc.)

Havoc