Re: Minutes of the gtk+ team IRC meeting - 2010-05-25

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 8:50 AM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
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>> ardour uses a modified version (GtkCustomRuler along with its H&V
>> derivatives) in ardour, because the stock ruler is not  flexible enough for
>> our needs. the primary difference (IIRC) is the use of a callback design to
>> determine where tick marks should be displayed and the labels to go with
>> them.
>
> This kind of stuff would be really good to have proposed as additions
> to GTK+, instead of hiding away in custom app-specific subclasses. It
> sounds generally useful.

the original author (we didn't write it, though we tweaked it just a
little) proposed it for inclusion about 7 years ago. it was rejected.