Re: Sharing the places sidebar between Nautilus and GTK+

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristanvb openismus com>]

On Wed, 2011-09-07 at 11:27 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Le mercredi 07 septembre 2011 à 01:53 +0200, Jannis Pohlmann a écrit :
> >   * the sidebar has no mount/eject progress indicators,
> There's a rough patch for it, maybe it will be committed soon:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=619665
> 
> >   * the eject buttons do not look/feel clickable, i.e., they don't
> >     change their appearance on hover events, 
> This was apparently committed before 3.0, but I don't see it. Bug is:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=544103
> 
> > Of course, some of these missing features are due to cell renderer
> > limitations, e.g. last time I tried, I couldn't get hover-in/hover-out
> > events for individual cells to work good enough to implement a
> > fully-working button renderer. But still, the places sidebar has more
> > potential and the current implement feels somewhat half-baked.
> Yeah, GtkTreeView would need some changes to implement this properly,
> but a hacky solution works currently (see patches). I had filed this:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=586458
> 

I just added some comments to that bug, I *think* the solution will
be much less 'hacky' after introducing GtkCellArea (the patches on
that bug seem to sadly predate GtkCellArea by only a couple of months).

Cheers,
         -Tristan