"natural size" for widgets packed in a GtkScrolledWindow

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

Hi all,

This may be related to the natural-size stuff I saw floating on 
gtk-devel-list a couple months ago, so maybe my answer is just "wait for 
the next major gtk release," but here goes...

Consider a dialog just with a scrolled window in it, and, inside the 
scrolled window, some widget that can hold arbitrary amounts of 
information, like a tree view, icon view, etc.

If I put a bunch of rows in the tree view (for example), and then show 
the dialog, I get this tiny dialog that shows only a single row in the 
tree view.  But I'd really rather it show, say 10 rows at a time.

Same issue with a GtkIconView, only it's worse -- if I set it up for 
"sideways" icons (icon on the left, text on the right), and pack a bunch 
of icons in there, the dialog shows itself with exactly one icon 
showing, and I need to scroll to see the rest.  Say I'd like to start 
off showing 3 columns and 4 rows, or whatever.

Is there any way to do this without writing a bunch of nasty hacky code? 
 It seems like these widgets are much less useful without some sort of 
intelligent autosizing.

        -brian