Re: GtkTreeView discussion

[Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com>]

Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:24:33PM -0500, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> >  * Selection: Current behavior, rubberband selection, click-and-drag
> >    selection (like the clist used to have in BROWSE).  Also, need a way
> >    to possibly do hover selection, both instantaneosly for the Combo,
> >    and delayed, for things like nautilus.
> 
> Be wary of combo semantics.  Hover selection is only part of the
> equation.  A comfortable finger feel requires knowledge of the fact
> that the list is in a combo.  However, it was not terribly difficult
> for the combo to add it manually by watching the motion events and
> adding a few grabs.

Yeah.  I'm not planning on adding a public
gtk_tree_view_set_combo_semantics() call anytime soon.  I was more
noting that we're going to have to plan for them in the future.  Also,
hover selection is nice, though possible better done as part of a
hover-click interface.

Thanks,
-Jonathan