Re: API for putting close buttons on tabs (proposal)

[Carlos Garnacho <carlos imendio com>]

Hi!,

On jue, 2008-06-26 at 17:38 +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 04:00:26PM +0300, Alexander Semenov wrote:
> 
> > I think that GtkNotebook API is missing methods for putting close 
> > buttons on tabs. Different implementations of this task look different 
> > and sometime ugly. It could be cool to add methods such as 
> > "gtk_notebook_tab_s(g)et_close_button_visible (...)" to the standard 
> > API. What does the community think about this?
> 
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116650 (five years old by now)

The patch in that bug is actually about adding an "action area" to
GtkNotebook, so people can pack widgets besides the tabs area. 

For the specific use case of close buttons, I'm not sure whether people
has been implementing the "one button per tab" approach because it was
impossible to do another thing from outside, and I at least see a few
advantages (less space taken, no moving targets, you have to set up
things once, less checks for tab widget hierarchy,...).

So, which would be the best approach to follow? while certainly the
close buttons is the main use case, a more generic API could bring other
benefits here, or is there any usability reason behind the one button
per tab approach?

Regards,
   Carlos