Re: Thoughts on combo replacement

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 12:48:38PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org> writes: 
> > If we finally have the click-hold down-release UI for combos, the undo
> > combo becomes much more intuitive since as you drag the mouse you see the
> > selection constatnly changing. This also happens with the current undo
> > combo, but you hve to release the mouse button before clicking on the list
> > again to drag it.
> 
> I'm worried that the click-holddown-release UI isn't implemented in
> GAL combo precisely because it's very difficult to implement when you
> have arbitrary widgets involved. I could be wrong but IIRC current
> GtkCombo goes through quite a bit of pain to get this to work with the
> list, and basically relies on all kinds of GtkList-specific behavior
> for that.

The GAL behavior is not intentional.  Its just that no one has
had the inclination to look into it.