Re: [Evolution-hackers] Ditching ETable

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>]

On Mon, 2004-09-13 at 13:45 -0400, JP Rosevear wrote:
> What would people think if we replaced the remaining etable usages (mail
> and task/calendar lists) with GtkTreeView?  The advantages are:
> 
> 1) One less big piece of complicated code to maintain
> 
> 2) Bi-directional text will just work
> 
> 3) A11y work will be easier
> 
> The disadvantages are:
> 
> 1) Potential performance hit (really only matters for mail, unlikely to
> have 10000 tasks or events in a month), NotZed said that performance
> wasn't bad in his eplugin test (improved from earlier gtk's anyhow) and
> spending 1-2 man months on the performance issues is less work than
> doing various bits of etable maintenance work in all likeliehood.
> 
I vote yes for using GtkTreeView, at least for tasks/calendars. If it's
ok for the mailer guys, then let's move all to it.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo novell com>