Re: #80127 Rubberbanding issues

["Matthias Clasen" <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On 5/16/06, Kristian Rietveld <kris imendio com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> A few months ago I have been working on a rubberbanding feature for
> GtkTreeView.  It is basically ready to go in CVS, but there are two issues
> left which are worth discussing here:
>
>   I. We are not fully sure how to handle the interaction between
>      rubberbanding and DnD.  Right now we decide what to do when a drag
>      starts, if the row where the drag started is selected we start a
>      DnD operation.  If unselected, we start a rubberbanding operation.
>
>      This works pretty okay, but I think it will break apps (nautilus, and
>      probably some others) out there when enabled by default.  I see two
>      options:
>        - Either disable rubberbanding by default,
>        - or come up with a method for deciding whether to DnD or rubberband
>          without breaking current applications.
>
>      I am tempted to go for disabling by default, and when enabled use
>      the behaviour I described above.

I agree.

>  II. The rectangle color is currently hardcoded to black, since that looks
>      best with the default theme.  Picking a shade of one of the theme
>      colors for the rectangle color will not always turn out nice, so
>      I think it might be a good idea to add a style property for this
>      to GtkTreeView and default to black for the default theme.

I recently removed one instance of hardcoded black from the treeview
dnd code. It would be sad to reintroduce another one now; black does not
work in hicolor-inverse and similar themes...

Matthias