Re: Docking widget for GTK 2.4

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 16:00, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > 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
> 

Thanks for the bug pointer - though it does not explicitly talk about
the requirements for a docking widget.

> > 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.

Well, it's only used in anjuta(2), so it's not exactly "in teh wild".

> 
> > 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.
> 

OK - I'll try to come up with a intro document. The problem is that I'm
not the author of the code - rather an end-user. Nevertheless, I think I
can come up with something reasonable.

> Matthias
> 
> 
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