Re: [gtk-list] GTK Project

[Federico Mena <federico nuclecu unam mx>]

>  If someone is really itching to do some GTK work, there is a need for a
>  way to align/size multiple widgets which have different parents (ie, not
>  in a table).  I was thinking GtkVBoxk and GtkHBox could have a function to
>  set a "group size hook".  If a hbox/vbox had such a hook set, it would be
>  keep track of the maximum widget size for each position, and the box would
>  allocate it's children to the size specified by the group hook object.
>  This would make it quite a bit easier to align menu items with pixmaps
>  without hard-coding the sizes.  I'll do it when I get some time.

It's a nice idea.  Should we have 

	gtk_box_set_alignment_group(GtkBox *box, GtkBoxGroup *group)

or should we have different aligned box widgets?

I prefer the first option.

  Quartic