Re: GtkOrientable and GtkBox

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 19:03 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:

> It's not really related to GtkOrientable per se, but it's specifically
> that when you change the runtime orientation you might also wish to
> reverse the packing order (I guess think about wishing to do a -90
> degree rotation rather than a +90 degree rotation).
> 
> Previously because you couldn't change the orientation, this was never
> something that came up.
> 
> Does this clear up what I mean?

Sure. But it would probably help to come up with a use case for this. I
can not think of any good use case for changing the box orientation at
run-time. And without such a use case, it becomes even harder to imagine
that one would also want to reverse the packing order.


Sven