Re: grid widget (was Re: possible removal of GtkWrapBox)

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 9:23 AM, Havoc Pennington <hp pobox com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did a little exercise a while ago of screenshotting some apps that
> seemed to be doing moderately complex layout and trying to write down
> what would be intuitive / no-redundant-typing sequences of commands to
> pack the layouts.
>
> Don't know if this will make sense to anyone else but I do think it's
> useful to take some real-world layouts and see how much typing they'd
> require and how clear the resulting code is. I didn't really finish
> the exercise so there's probably some mistakes in here.
>
> Some preliminary theories from the exercise:

some nice stuff. one thing that comes to mind is the question of what
child reordering actually does in such a world. if its not clear why i
think that is a question to be answered, i'll expand ...