Re: GtkTreeView column-chooser dialog

[Charles Schmidt <cschmidt2 emich edu>]

Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> Proposal:
> =========
>
> I'd like to add a new dialog to GTK+.  This dialog would give a
> consistent way to change the layout of a multi-columned GtkTreeView
> widget.  There's an implementation in libegg that currently looks like
> this:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/jrb/files/Screenshot-Test-tree-column.png
>
> The basic idea is that we provide a dialog to modify the
> order/visibility of columns on a complicated view.  I feel like
> something like this is common enough that it warrants going into GTK+.
> Still, if people feel it's inappropriate, we can put it elsewhere.

Bleh.  I'd much rather see an extra column ala (the only thing that 
springs to mind) Mozilla.  Its an extra column header at the upper right 
(I guess it could be upper left if RTL) that when clicked, drops down a 
menu with check menu items for all the columns representing their 
visability.   Since TreeView already has columns reorderable, why add an 
extra dialog?  The whole thing just seems really clumsy when a more 
direct approach would be easier.

I wrote my own widget that, rather hackishly, adds this extra column, a 
screenshot is available at 
http://ishamael.tunkeymicket.com/images/itv.png   I suppose I could 
provide the code if anyone was interested enough, but its rather... 
hackish, as I said.

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-charlie