Re: toolbars in small windows

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>]

Bo Majewski <bo majewski com> writes:

> Applications such as gedit have the ability to shrink to a size smaller
> than their tool bar. In addition, when the window is too narrow to
> display the entire tool bar, an arrow button is shown that when pressed
> shows the remaining tool bar buttons.
>
> Somehow I cannot convince my tool bars to behave this way. I was trying
> to look into the code of gedit 2.2.2, but I failed to see what they do
> that I don't. I would very much appreciate pointers, suggestions or URLs
> that explain how to obtain the above described effects.

GEdit uses the BonoboUIToolbar widget from the libbonoboui
library. The arrow is a feature of that widget.  The toolbar in gtk+
2.2 does not support this, but gtk+ 2.4 has a reworked toolbar among
other features has support for an overflow menu.


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