Re: Minutes of the gtk+ team IRC meeting - 2010-05-25

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

Am 01.06.2010 15:50, schrieb Matthias Clasen:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
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> 
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>> ardour uses a modified version (GtkCustomRuler along with its H&V
>> derivatives) in ardour, because the stock ruler is not  flexible enough for
>> our needs. the primary difference (IIRC) is the use of a callback design to
>> determine where tick marks should be displayed and the labels to go with
>> them.
> 
> This kind of stuff would be really good to have proposed as additions
> to GTK+, instead of hiding away in custom app-specific subclasses. It
> sounds generally useful.

+1. I am using the rulers in my apps too, but find them not too flexible.
Couldn't we colelct the needs and improve it, instead of killing it. If that
would be a viable option, I'll start with a patch for
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=465041

Featurewise, I would assume that most people need:
- more influence on the ticks/subticks
- maybe a mapping callback (to do log scales).

Altogether I found only 5 open bugs (not counting the one that asks to deprecate it)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced;short_desc=ruler;bug_status=UNCONFIRMED;bug_status=NEW;bug_status=ASSIGNED;bug_status=REOPENED;bug_status=NEEDINFO;short_desc_type=allwordssubstr;product=gtk%2B


Stefan