Re: GTK+ 2.10, the endgame

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 01:05 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi Murray,
> 
> On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 10:52 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > I'm also concerned about the recent files stuff. Do we now have
> > UIManager integration of that?
> 
> No, and I am to blame because I had less time to spend on fixing this
> issue.
> 
> Mostly, I've been stuck on how to implement an action for both the menu
> and toolbars using the same tag.  In the meantime, a nice and clean way
> to integrate the GtkRecentChooserMenu inside a GtkUIManager is to
> subclass GtkAction into a custom action that automatically adds a recent
> chooser menu to the menu item it creates, and use a placeholder in the
> UI definition (most applications using EggRecentViewUIManager already
> have that placeholder present).
> 
> A working example is available here:
> 
>   http://www.gnome.org/~ebassi/test-uimanager.c
> 
> The action code itself is one hundred lines long and can easily be
> hidden inside an helper file; it's approximately how GtkRecentAction
> would be implemented, anyway.  I hereby give permission to do whatever
> you want to do with it.
> 
> I understand that it's sub-optimal, and hopefully this should really go
> away once there's an action inside GTK.

Do you feel that the existing API might need to be changed to add this
to a future version of GTK+? For instance, would it need need existing
classes to implement new interfaces, or add new signals?

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Murray Cumming
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