RE: 2.4 features - Indenting container

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 04:22, Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote:
> So, does any one agree/disagree that this is a good idea?

Sorry to be lazy, but can you summarize exactly what "this" is? 

The only API proposal I remember seeing was a proposal for
a separate container widget that allowed for padding on
exactly one side of it's child.

This didn't seem like a great idea to me ... it's a little
clunky to have to nest containers if you need padding on
two sides, and I don't see a need for a new container
type.

Something like:

 gtk_alignment_set_padding (left, right, top, bottom)

(Corresponding to four separate properties) would seem 
better to me.

Regards,
                                   Owen


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Cumming Murray (COMNEON Linz) 
> > Sent: Freitag, 7. März 2003 09:38
> > To: gtk-devel-list gnome org
> > Cc: hp redhat com; aes gnome org; aldug gnome org
> > Subject: 2.4 features - Indenting container
> > 
> > 
> > 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