Re: Thoughts on combo replacement

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Owen Taylor wrote:

>  * While the gal combobox code supports arbitrary widgets in the drop down
>    portion, I don't think that is actually useful. The only use of it I've
>    seen is in the color-combo, where you have a bunch of colors and a 
>    GnomeColorPicker for a custom color. But the GnomeColorPicker effectively
>    acts like just another menu item, so I don't see any requirement to have
>    a widget for it.

And what about GtkComboStack (from gal)? It uses a list, but I don't see
how it could be translated to a menu -- an important feature of it is that
the user sees that he undoes/redoes everything below the selected item,
not just the selected item.