Re: [Evolution-hackers] Addressbook UI thoughts

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 11:02, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > Does it support tree view and dnd and scale, and etc etc? :)
>
> It does explicitly *not* support tree view, and I never did DnD.

> But the scaling bit is probably better than anything you have anyways.
But of course scaling is trivial with a flat view ...

> > Can you make GtkTreeView (or the list view) display like that?  Using
> > a custom cell renderer for example?  We might be able to make
> > gtktreeview scale, or we might not :-/
> > 
> > That would probably be the way to go wouldn't it?  And more GNOME
> > oriented?
>
> I think we want to have a new widget for that display mode, for Evo 2.0
> you cant really use Mono if you wanted to, but you should definitely
> write a simple widget, along the lines of what I did.
So we'll need two different widgets for the different views?

> This one is a tight widget, the idea was to only have a few optional
> features, and it moves the logic for cell rendering into the widget,
> less complexity.
Yeah i know.  I'm not having a go, it just seems that every time we start with something 'simple' it grows complex, and i just wanted to discuss possible issues.

Given that the components are simpler now, it would be nice to even have a mono based one, even if its just a prototype.  Whats the status of the gc/pthreads issue?