Re: Simplifying GtkFileSystemModel



On Wed, 2004-07-07 at 22:44, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> GtkFileSystemModel has a bunch of delicate code to handle a multi-level
> file system tree:  fancy delayed destruction of nodes, blah blah.
> However, these days we never use GtkFileSystemModel as anything other
> than a single-level display of a file system folder; we don't have
> expandable nodes any more, as we always set the max_depth to 0.
> 
> It seems to me that we could remove all the code to handle multi-level
> trees and just keep GtkFileSystemModel as simple glue between
> GtkFileFolder and GtkTreeView.  This would make the code a lot smaller
> and simpler to the point of being almost trivial.

I'd say anything that reduces the line count of GTK+ while keeping the
same functionality is a win.

The only thing that seems possibly tricky is that I don't think such
a major change should be done on the stable branch, so there would
be more divergence to deal with for bug fixes.

Regards,
						Owen

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