RE: Docking widget for GTK 2.4

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

Well, GdlDock is much more powerful that the handle box. It is more like
a replacement for GnomeDock and offers the same kind of features and API
like BonoboDock or QT's QDockArea and QDockWindow.

Briefly, you have a GdlDock widget which is a container for gtk dock
items:
GtkContainer->GdlDockObject->GdlDock

Then you have GtkDockItems which can be created from any widget:
GtkContainer->GdlDockObject->GdlDockItem

[ There is also a GdlDockLayout for edinting dock objecgt positions,
visibility, etc. ]

All gdl dock objects are identifyable by a unique name.

Once you have a dock and a set of dock objects, you can attach these
objects to the dock, specifying a default attachment style while doing
so.

Subsequently, the user can use DnD to place various dock items
differently. Supported options are docked (left, right, bottom, top),
notebook and floating.

I think the best thing is to try it out to get a feel for it. If you
check out gdl, you can compile and run the test-dock program in the gdl
subdirectory.

> > I was wondering if there are anhy plans for adding a docking
> > widget for
> > GTK 2.4. 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.
> 
> Is this not the same as a GtkHandleBox?  Perhaps there is more to the GDL
> widget? I myself have not seen it.
> If it is the same, would the GtkHandleBox be improved OR would a new widget
> be considered?
> 
> Also, people's ideas about how "docking" should work may be different -
> i.e.
> should a widget dock with a parent it was originally separated from, OR
> should a widget be able to DOCK anywhere?  If there is supposed to be a
> strict parent/child relationship with docking, it sounds like the
> GtkHandleBox already does this.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Martyn
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