Re: timeouts in GTK+

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 12:51, Bill Haneman wrote:
> Matthias said:
> 
> > > GTK+ contains a considerable number of hardwired timeouts:
> > ...
> 
> > To make GTK+ more accessible, most of these should be 
> > > made configurable. These timeouts can be roughly grouped 
> > > into the following functional groups:
> > > 
> > > - repeat functionality
> > >     (calendar arrows, spinbutton arrows, notebook 
> > >      scrolling, etc)
> > > - scrolling 
> > >     (dnd scrolling in the text view, tree view, icon view,
> > >      menu scrolling, combo box scrolling)
> > > - animation
> > >     (tree node expansion, expander, toolbar animation)
> > > - miscellaneous other things
> > > 
> > > I would propose to add settings for
> > > 
> > > - disabling repeat (boolean)
> > > - repeat speed (float, say from 1 (very slow) - 100 (very fast))
> 
> I think repeat speed can more usefully be expressed as an absolute
> value.  I would suggest using milliseconds.
> 

The problem with using absolute values is that we're currently using
different values in many places, and it is not clear that using the same
value everywhere is optimal. Thus I thought keeping the current values
and modifying them with a common factor might give better results...

Matthias