[Glade-devel] Toolbar support

[richard imendio com (Richard Hult)]

Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 16:13:43 +0100, Richard Hult <richard imendio com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been looking at getting toolbar editing working (bug #157163).
> > There are basically two options:
> >
> > 1. Make it work like in glade-2, where the toolbar is just a regular
> > container, and you have additional tool items in the palette for toolbar
> > buttons, check/togglebuttons and a toolbar separator item. You can also
> > put any other widget in the toolbar, in which case glade automatically
> > inserts a tool item container for you.
> >
> > 2. Implement a toolbar editor instead and don't expose the toolbar as a
> > container.
>
>
> 3. Implement a non-widget relationship between the GtkToolbar and
> the GtkToolItem.
>
> This would mean that on a right click of a GtkToolbar parent would
> give you an "Add" submenu that allows you to add a choice of
>     - GtkToolItem
>     - GtkToolButton
>     - GtkMenuToolButton
>     - GtkToggleToolButton
>     - GtkRadioToolButton
>     - GtkSeparatorToolItem
>            
> In the case of a GtkToolItem we could add a placeholder.
>
> Currently this is how non-widgets work in glade-3, we could probably
> do the same thing for menus come to think of it.

We talked a bit about this on IRC, for those that weren't there, Tristan 
explained a bit more. Basically, the toolitems would be handled 
differently than regular widgets, and would not be available in the 
palette. I don't think that is a good idea since the UI gets a lot less 
obvious that way, I would definitely prefer to handle this like glade-2 
does, as regular widgets, or have a separate toolbar editor dialog.

/Richard

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