Re: Re[8]: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Address book toolbar

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

Le mer 19/02/2003 à 17:02, Kilian Krause a écrit :
> Hi Damien,
> 
> DS> Yes I did, but the problem is that you have to change GTK's default
> DS> behavior and play with highlights colors which is bad. Moreover I don't
> DS> event know if there is a way to know with GTK what was the last selected
> DS> thing in 2 GtkTreeView's. I think you can't.
> 
> DS> I don't plan to implement that now, so the idea will grow in my mind
> DS> anyway.
> 
> thanks for the clear answer.. finally, now i see what u dislike.. =)

Don't make me say what I didn't say. Here is what I don't like about the
idea(s) :

- GTK doesn't provide a way to know what row of 2 different
GtkTreeView's has been last selected, from a GTK point of view, there
will be 2 last selected rows : 1 for each GtkTreeView.
The fact that GTK doesn't provide an easy way to determine what was last
selected leads me to think that the behavior will be unintuitive.

- A more intuitive behavior would be to have 2 "Trash icons". One in the
left part for groups and servers, and one in the right part for
contacts. However, I don't think it will be very nice to have 2 trash
icons in the same window.

- Finally, the idea of the drop down list is the best one, but I've
never seen that in any other application than galeon and evolution, and
I wonder if it is intuitive *in the current case*.

So no, I didn't find any good solution yet, that's why I said I prefer
to let the idea grow in my mind while coding on other things. I want to
code that later because there is no satisfying solution. Saying that I
argue there is no satisfying solution because I don't want to code it
now is wrong, see above for the argumentation of "why I think there is
no good solution to the problem".

PS: the same applies for the New and Delete buttons.

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