Re: Thoughts on the ComboBox framework
- From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
- To: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
- Cc: Evan Martin <martine cs washington edu>, Kristian Rietveld <kris gtk org>, GTK Development list <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Thoughts on the ComboBox framework
- Date: 30 Mar 2003 09:49:21 -0500
On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 19:24, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 01:35:55PM -0800, Evan Martin wrote:
> >
> > Or am I missing something crucial? I suppose the main difference is
> > that you get a TreeView in the dropdown? (That is, of course, very
> > useful...)
>
> What you're missing is that GtkOptionMenu isn't opaque enough - we
> can't backward-compatibly change it such that the combobox vs. menu
> look is part of the theme.
>
> So this GtkComboBox would replace GtkOptionMenu, we would deprecate
> GtkOptionMenu. (Though GtkComboBox in menu mode and GtkOptionMenu
> would look and behave exactly the same so there would not be a huge
> hurry to purge all usage of the option menu API.)
Though name-wise, there is minor conceptual problem with "GtkComboBox"
- the name "combo" comes from "combination of Entry and dropdown list"
Probably not worth worrying about.
Regards,
Owen
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