Re: Notes and thoughts on the GTK+ meeting at GUADEC

[Kristian Rietveld <kris gtk org>]

Hi,

On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Christian Hergert<chris dronelabs com> wrote:
> One of the items I haven't seen discussed is input validation.  Web
> frameworks such as Rails and Django spent a great deal of time making these
> easy to work with and I think that it should be considered for gtk+ 3.0.
>
> FWIW, I hacked up a crude idea[1] a few months ago.  If others are
> interested in this feature, and willing to give me API guidance, I'd be
> willing to spend the time to implement it.

I think this is really interesting to pursue!

> As primary features, I think it should cover,

All sound like nice ideas.  You might also want to read through a very
old bug about this topic:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50276 (Entry, combo, spin
button validation).


regards,

-kris.