Re: The expander arrow (triangle) in TreeView

[Maciej Katafiasz <ml mathrick org>]

Dnia 23-06-2005, czw o godzinie 11:32 +0200, Colossus napisał:
> > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142415
> > It's curently not possible. This standard feature
> > was removed, in part because it "tends to confuse people".
> > You can use the old deprecated widgets.
>
> It tends to confuse people ??? With all my respect to people who are 
> better than me in coding this is a very "strange" reason. The treeview 
> with +- sign, line and the image of the folders opened/closed when you 
> click on +- sign, is beautiful to see and also it is a very well way 
> of having stuffs ordered. I want to implement it into my coming 
> frontend to zip,rar,bzip2 ecc to give the user the way to extract the 
> files by clicking on the +- signs to surf the content of the hard disk.

Again, you're not the one to decide here. If the user wants + sign, they
can use appropriate theme. Apps should NOT be able to override that.

Cheers,
Maciej

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Maciej Katafiasz <ml mathrick org>