Re: possible removal of GtkWrapBox

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristanvb openismus com>]

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 12:36 +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> Hi all,
>     With recent developments I've found that GtkWrapBox in the end is
> not what was needed to meet the requirements of Glom (hence the writeup
> of the different container... coming in another mail).

FWIW, after leaving this for a week nobody claimed it. I just removed
GtkWrapBox from the gtk+ repository and added an EggWrapBox to libegg
incase anyone is interested in experimenting.

Cheers,
       -Tristan

> 
> Furthermore, the gimp's newer versions is now using GtkToolPalette
> in place of the older wrap-box (the gimp had been using a similar
> wrap-box widget to wrap items around in one of it's toolbars).
> 
> I will of course be sad to see the efforts go to waste so I must
> ask if anyone is interested in actually using this new widget.
> 
> Candidate applications could be:
>   - Some media content browser (for instance, some album jackets
>     lined up in rows and adding rows for any additional content)
>   - Any kind of point-of-sales application where goods can be
>     represented by a linear list of widgets of variable size, 
>     again adding rows or columns when more items are added.
>   - A typical hand-phone interface where applications are represented
>     by wrapping icons.
>   - Whatever application that might use ClutterFlowLayout... could
>     use GtkWrapBox to do the same.
> 
> If nobody has a particular interest in using the wrap-box widget;
> regretfully I think the best would be to back it out of GTK+ before 
> it's too late (I can then add it to libegg... then if it gets 
> eventually used by someone we easily pull it back in).
> 
> Any takers ? thoughts ?
> 
> Cheers,
>         -Tristan
> 
> 
> 
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