Re: Toolbar editor

[Biswapesh Chattopadhyay <biswapesh_chatterjee tcscal co in>]

I think it is a pretty good idea. I was planning on moving the anjuta
GUI code to EggMenu/Toolbar and we really need menu/toolbar
customization.

> Hi,
> 
> is there any plan to have a toolbar editor based on EggMenu in libegg ?
> 
> I think it would be a good idea:
> - useful for the apps ported to the new toolbar api (at least epiphany,
> marlin and anjuta already need it). Some of them are already starting their
> own implementation or cut/paste epiphany code. A common place to develop
> it would avoid the mess.
> - help to design an interface that can work for most apps
> - find and fix EggMenu/EggToolbar problems regard editing before they are
> included in gtk
> 
> In epiphany we started working on a drag and drop based implementation,
> you can see it at:
> http://www.prettypeople.org/~iain/tbe-iain-5.png
> I think it's the more usable approach but it would need some work to make
> it accessible, one reason more to share the code.
> 
> Current design is based on two objects.
> 
> EphyToolbarsGroup:
> The model. All EditableToolbar instance share it.
> EphyEditableToolbar :
> The view. It has an _edit api that shows the dialog.
> We will need a way to add support for custom drag and drop types and a way
> for application to create EggActions for them (we use it for bookmarks in
> epiphany).
> 
> You can see the code in epiphany module (gnome cvs)
> 
> lib/widgets/ephy-editable-toolbar.c/h
> lib/widgets/ephy-toolbars-group.c/h
> 
> If there is interest to have this in libegg, me and iain could mantain it,
> we need to work on it for marlin and epiphany anyway.
> I'd be happy to try to address eventual design problems.
> 
> Let me know.
> 
> Marco
> 
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