Re: Fixed height GtkTreeViews

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 04:45, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 14:50, Kristian Rietveld wrote:
> 
> > I just committed /the/ fixed height patch for GtkTreeView to GTK+ HEAD.
> > A fixed height GtkTreeView basically means that we only measure the
> > height of the first row and use this height for each row in the
> > GtkTreeView.
> 
> This is totally awesome.
> 
> > Fixed height mode is not enabled by default. The programmer will have to
> > enable it by doing the following two twings:
> 
> Is there a known case where this is not what you want to do?  I don't
> remember seeing a tree view with variable row heights in any
> application.  Maybe we should make it the default?

Any app showing text could cause problems. For instance, if there is
text with e.g. japanese characters or something else with taller glyphs
somewhere in the list these would be cut off.

Enabling this by default will make us look ugly and buggy every time
this happens, and I think small lists are much more common than huge
ones, so the default performance really isn't that important.

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