Re: enhancement to GtkList

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Thanks for the contribtion; Unfortunately, GtkList is (for all
practical purposes) a deprecated widget in GTK+-2.0, and will
definitelyl be deprecated after 2.2. (It's still used by GtkCombo,
so we can't entirely deprecate it it until we replace GtkCombo.)

We have a new tree/list widget for GTK+-2.0 that is much more 
powerful (and correspondingly complex.) It should be possible
to reuse much of the infrastructure of the new widget
(GtkTreeModel, GtkCellRenderer) in a horizontally scrolling
widget; the part you would be replacing (GtkTreeView
and GtkTreeViewColumn) is a _lot_ of code, but probably 75%
of that code is code for features that aren't necessarily
relevant (column headers, resizing, reordering columns, etc.)

Regards,
                                        Owen

Brian Bruns <camber ais org> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've been working on a patch to GtkList to allow the ListItems to be 
> layed out in columns.  The items are drawn top to bottom until the end of 
> the viewable area is reached and then begin again in the next column to 
> the right.  This behaviour is controlled with a new function 
> gtk_list_set_horizontal_mode() and is a fairly small (under 100 lines) 
> patch.
> 
> This is similar to win32 file dialog box behaviour or for my purposes like 
> MS Access's list windows in the notebook tabs.
> 
> So, my question is.  Is this something that would be of interest generally 
> for GTK or should I be packaging this separately with my application?