virtual column

[Sascha Ziemann <szi aibon ping de>]

Hi,

is is possible to extend the button-box feature to a virtual column
feature? A virtual column could be a box that does not arrange the
elements below each other but only adjusts the width of the elements
(same for row and height). There are many situations where gui elements
needs the same size or position but can not arranged in the same box:

- buttons of the same width in a row
- columns in each list item
- labels in each side of a panned
- etc.

The button-box and the clist are both workarounds for this problem. A
virtual column or row would be a more general approche.

A even more general approche would be a attribute adjust feature, but I
think this will be a bit too much for GTK, because I think it is
difficult to avoid infinite resize events.

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