Re: Hinting GtkEntry

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On Thu, 24 May 2007, Ross Burton wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Several applications have GtkEntry classes which show a message in faded
> text when the entry is normally empty and disabled, wiping it when the
> entry is focused (as an example see the search bar in Evolution).
>
> I've made a simple subclass of GtkEntry which does this for Tasks, but
> is there any interest of adding this as a "hint" property to GtkEntry in
> GTK+ instead?

if several apps duplicate this already, "interest" obviously exists.
should be filed as a bug report with patch then.

> Ross

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ciaoTJ