Re: GTK+ replacements for libgnomeui widgets

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

"James M. Cape" <jcape ignore-your tv> writes:

> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 16:23 -0500, James M. Cape wrote:
> > As I said on #gtk-devel today, I've written some replacements for the
> > GnomeFileEntry and GnomePixmapEntry widgets in libgnomeui for possible
> > inclusion in GTK+ 2.6: EscoFileChooserEntry and EscoImageButton.
> 
> I was just thinking that perhaps the EscoImageButton might be made into
> a more generic EscoFileChooserButton which used the user-set preview
> widget as the button contents. The EscoImageButton could then be either
> a subclass or a simple convenience function which filled in the
> appropriate preview stuff and did the scaling and such. The code would
> be much cleaner, but I'm not sure how useful random file buttons are in
> real applications.

Well, the GnomePixmapEntry widget has always been a usability
nightmare and I strongly hope that no such widget will ever make it
into GTK+. If you want users to choose an icon, then present them with
a set of icons, not with a file chooser widget. The user shouldn't
have to care about the location of the icon/image file on disk.


Sven