Re: [gnome-love] Intrested in hacking gnome and doing gtop tree view

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel ximian com>]

> 1.  Should there be a button or something you push to
> get a tree view?  The thing is, is I know I myself
> like to sort the list a lot by the % of mem being used
> by programs, if you had it in a process hierarchy then
> the sorting stuff would have to work differently
> because it's in a tree.  If you have two modes though,
> you can use it look at it as a tree and as a regular
> list.

I would think having a menu in `View' would do the trick:
`View/Listmode' or `View/Tree' view.

> 2.  I was thinking CTree is the widget I'd use to do
> this.

That works, but I would like to see something that uses E-Table, as
E-Table would allow for simple customization of the view, and also
does grouping.

> 3.  I couldn't figure out how to compile from cvs, I
> tried running autogen.sh, but it needed the fild
> gnome-autogen(.sh I think).  This is prolly the
> biggest thing, since I sortof need to be able to
> compile it to test stuff out.  I know this is prolly a
> stupid question, but like I said, I don't know much
> ;-)

My recommendantion: compile from source tarballs rather than jump
starting with GNOME CVS.

Miguel.