Re: API Fragmentation and Cleanup

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

James Henstridge <james daa com au> writes: 
> The development version of gtk+ already does scrolling menus, and the code
> in panel is probably derived from that.  So in the future all gtk+
> programs will have this feature (ie. then next version of the GNOME
> development platform).
> 
> Given that the panel may have arbitrarily large menus (and quite often the
> menus are taller than 480 or 600 pixels), having the scrolling ability is
> quite useful for small screens.  It seems like a good compromise to back
> port that code for this program.
> 

I think the panel scroll code predates the stuff in GTK, it's some
kind of gruesome hack to work around GTK lacking the feature.

Kenny I think you're right, btw.

Havoc

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