Re: [Evolution-hackers] Addressbook UI thoughts

[Chris Toshok <toshok ximian com>]

On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 16:21, Not Zed wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 10:42, Rodrigo Moya wrote: 
> > On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 00:29, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-12-08 at 22:57, Not Zed wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > So a side-by-side view of for example mail would be rather useful: You'd
> > > > > get a message list on the left (it could even do multiline:
> > > > > 
> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------
> > > > > Subject: *Hey check this out!* (bigger font)
> > > > > From: Foo Bar                            Today, 9am (small font)
> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------
> > > > > Subject: *New meeting agenda*
> > > > > From: Tuomas Kuosmanen                   Today, 11am
> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------
> > > > > Subject: *Gnome.org mailing list reminder*
> > > > > From: Gnome List Manager                 Today, 9am
> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------
> > > > Except etable wont do this without some probably significant work.
> > > 
> > > Yea. I remember words "new" and "widget" being uttered in relation to
> > > this :)
> > > 
> > > Sort of like a multiline list monster.
> > >
> > IIRC, Miguel had a widget of this kind, written in C#, probably worth
> > looking at it.
> 
> Does it support tree view and dnd and scale, and etc etc? :)
> 
> (its only prototype code right, so it might have some good ideas, but
> is a ways off being usable).
> 
> 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 :-/

I actually wrote a GtkTreeView renderer much like those suggested here
for the addressbook a while back.  Lost it in a disk crash, but here's a
screenshot of what I had:

http://toshok.org/images/ecellrendererminicard.jpg

It had some issues of its own, but I recall it being a night's worth of
hacking to get it working to the point you see there.

Chris