Melvin Hadasht said: >> > perhaps some tests/studies should be done on this - both of us are just >> > guessing at which way is better >> >> I would love to see some tests on this too. > > Maybe the we could create the widgets in some scripting language and > post them to the users list with some kind of check list ? here's a very primitive mock up in perl, knocked out in about a half an hour. the path-finder doesn't keep the paths the way eugenia described, but it's a start. i used a viewport with an HBox inside, but didn't actually hook up the adjustments, so it doesn't scroll. perhaps someone who's better with GTK+ could take care of that. for browsing around my home directory it works (for a moment, then it crashes because i don't handle paths correctly). you can also play with this to see how the stretchiness affects things visually. to get the shortcut list to resize, we'd need to use a VPaned, which i did not do. (for the uninitiated, this requires perl 5.8.0 and the Gtk2 module from http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/ ... rpms available on the project page.) -- muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>
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