Re: tree model

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 21:10 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> >
> > I should have been slightly more clear:  I am interested in being able to
> > provide a GtkTreeModel for those people who wish to use it without having to
> > link to libgtk myself.
> >
> > So the problem with using GNode: GtkTreeView doesn't use it.
> 
> I don't see why this is something we should be eager to support. Since
> tree models are only useful with GTK+ widgets, it doesn't seem like a
> big burden to link against gtk when you are providing tree models. The
> consumer of your model will already link against gtk anyway.

I think the Clutter project has it's own model implementation only
because there isn't one in glib. There isn't actually a consumer in
Clutter for ClutterModel, but other libraries built on top of Clutter
use it.

Regards,

Thomas