Re: Hinting GtkEntry

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Would it be better to just support an icon inside the entry? (how many 
different use cases are there really for this, maybe all of them should 
just be supported directly?)

The reason for the side windows in GtkTextView is sort of different: 
they scroll with the text view contents. The scrolling aspect would be 
difficult to achieve without the side window feature.

For putting an icon in an entry, there isn't really this complexity; 
something like gtk_entry_set_icon() or just gtk_entry_set_left_widget() 
would work fine, instead of having to deal with GdkWindow and custom 
drawing.

Also, the icon I would think can avoid GdkWindow overhead and just be 
drawn without a separate window?

Havoc