Re: Thoughts on the ComboBox framework

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:24, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:35:55PM -0800, Evan Martin wrote:
> > 
> > Or am I missing something crucial?  I suppose the main difference is
> > that you get a TreeView in the dropdown?  (That is, of course, very
> > useful...)
> 
> What you're missing is that GtkOptionMenu isn't opaque enough - we
> can't backward-compatibly change it such that the combobox vs. menu
> look is part of the theme.
> 
> So this GtkComboBox would replace GtkOptionMenu, we would deprecate
> GtkOptionMenu. (Though GtkComboBox in menu mode and GtkOptionMenu
> would look and behave exactly the same so there would not be a huge
> hurry to purge all usage of the option menu API.)

Though name-wise, there is minor conceptual problem with "GtkComboBox"
- the name "combo" comes from "combination of Entry and dropdown list"

Probably not worth worrying about.

Regards,
                                         Owen