On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 13:13 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Would it be better to just support an icon inside the entry? (how many
> different use cases are there really for this, maybe all of them should
> just be supported directly?)
>
> The reason for the side windows in GtkTextView is sort of different:
> they scroll with the text view contents. The scrolling aspect would be
> difficult to achieve without the side window feature.
>
> For putting an icon in an entry, there isn't really this complexity;
> something like gtk_entry_set_icon() or just gtk_entry_set_left_widget()
> would work fine, instead of having to deal with GdkWindow and custom
> drawing.
SexyEntry supports activatable icons on the left and right of a widget,
although the implementation isn't great (doesn't support named icons and
so on).
Ross
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