My experiences with GTK - what I would like changed...

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Hi !

Alright, after writing my first program with the gTK+ toolkit I'd like
to talk about what should be changed/added:

- - The GTK+ seems to follow a "click-to-focus" strategy even if the
window manager (and hence all other applications) follow a
"focus-follows-mouse" one. This is kinda annoying, because I need to
click on a button, leave the window again (because otherwise it won't
acknowledge the focus) and then I can use the button. I think this is
the biggest flaw of GTK "feel-wise".

- - What about giving the programmer the possibility to attach own data
structures to Widgets ? I'd like a function set like

void gtk_widget_submit_userdata(Widget* widget, gpointer* data);
void gtk_widget_delete_userdata(Widget* widget, gint number);
gpointer* gtk_widget_retrieve_userdata(Widget* widget, gint number);

This could easily by done by a GList, I guess... and it would make
object oriented programming even easier.

- - The last big thing I have been looking and couldn't find was a
signal handler where I can have a routine being called when a child
dies or sends any other signal. I know I could probably do that by
directly using the systems handlers, but it would be much better to
only have GTK managing this kind of stuff.

Alright - this is what came to my mind right now. Any comments ?

Later,
	Georg

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Georg C. F. Greve <greve@fusebox.hanse.de>
http://porter.desy.de/~greve/ - ICQ#10016966
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