Re: Docking widget for GTK 2.4

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

> Hi
> 
> I was wondering if there are anhy plans for adding a docking widget for
> GTK 2.4. 

I guess at this point, it would be 2.6, since we're already in the "decide
what doesn't go in" phase for 2.4. There is already a bug for adding this kind
of widget, which dates back to any even older pre-2.0 TODO entry,
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79287
 
> Since we already have a more-or-less purely GTK and very
> powerful and flexible docking widget in GDL, it would be nice if it
> could be imported into libegg and given some consideration. It has a
> nice API and seems very well thought out. It also includes a GUI layout
> manager and uses XML for saving/loading layouts.

If it is already in CVS somewhere and used in the wild, I don't think moving
it to libegg would
gain us much.  

> You can check out gdl from GNOME CVS and have a look at it. We are also
> using it in anjuta2 and anjuta HEAD.
> 
> What are the steps required for getting this into GTK ? Though I'm not
> the writer of the code, maybe I can do some of the required donkey-work
> for preparing it for inclusion ?

The first step would be to write a proposal outlining the use cases, api and
interaction with other parts of
GTK, and discuss it here. See e.g.
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2003-March/msg00048.html for an example.

Matthias


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