Re: Programmer's criticism of GTK2

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Maxim Koshelev <max krascoal ru> writes:

> Hi there,
> I've decided to post this some critics after exploring various parts
> of GTK2 library.
> Unfortunately GTK2 is awfull in some points of view, and perfect in another.
> Of course all of us live in real world and nothing can be perfectly
> perfect :-)
> 1)Let's compare old GtkCList/CTree and new TreeModel
>     -Using both of them we can't store a single pointer  the row and
> use it for FAST access in future.
> GtkCList model hides them(pointers) from us, TreeModel forbids to use
> stored iterators after any
> changes of the list/tree. I absolutely do not understand WHY! Both
> (new and old) list/tree structures does
> not reallocate data of the row till it will be removed and added
> again.

You can use GtkTreeIters from GtkListStore/GtkTreeStore until they're
deleted.  It's just GtkTreeModelSort iters that can't be kept after
signals changed.

>     -Simplicity. Add a row to the GtkCList (with all data) and to the
> list_store. Compare code length :-)

I'd like to think that GtkTreeView is much more flexible.  You can do a
lot more with it.  Part of the price of this flexibility is complexity.
I've contemplated making a CList-like list wrapper that people can use,
and am still undecided if it's a good idea or not.

Thanks,
-Jonathan