RE: 2.4 features - Indenting container

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthias Clasen [mailto:maclas gmx de] 
> > I'd like to make sure this doesn't slip through the GTK+ 
> 2.4 feature 
> > freeze.
> > 
> > I think it's generally agreed now that we need a new container for 
> > right, left, top, and bottom indentation. This would make it much 
> > easier to implement the HIG recommendations. We could hack 
> this into 
> > an existing widget as a new property I suppose, but it seems much 
> > simpler to create a new container.
> > 
> > I can't find the actual posts in the archive because of the lousy 
> > search engine, but I think that
> > - Havoc suggested the new container widget idea recently.
> > - Andrew Sobala offered to implement it recently.
> > - Alex Duggan (or maybe someone else) gave us a patch for something 
> > similar recently.
> > 
> 
> here is bug related to this: 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=> 96374
> 
> 
> and here is 
> a thread: 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2002-December/ms
g00055.html

I think those show that it'll be much easier to just implement a new, simple
container widget. And I think it'll be  a simpler API too.

Murray Cumming
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