Re: [gtk-list] Re: Some ideas about GtkText

[Brian Stempel <stempel verinet com>]

Andy Kahn wrote:

> What you're describing sounds more like a full-blown application
> rather than a widget.

Agreed... This is getting ridiculous. It's certainly valuable
I think to have opinions from everyone, although arguably
some ideas help shape guidelines for what *not* to do... The
text widget is certainly the most complicated widget in the
entire set, and it would be (in my mind) an incredible achievement
for someone(s) to design/implement it with correct/complete support for
vertical/horizontal scrolling, internationalization, and
other "necessary" features.

So why add interminably to the complexity to the point where we've
got microsoft word (figuratively speaking) in a widget? The balance
between minimally complete and feature bloated is becoming somewhat
unbalanced.

I can't (unfortunately) provide much constructive fodder here, but as
a developer I would be very sad if the text widget departed so
drastically in use from the other widgets that I had to start
worrying about things like shared libraries (or <GASP> Corba) dedicated
solely to it.

IMHO, these "customized" widgets are candidates for add ons, not core
library components. It really seems to me that there should be
be just one text widget (and a single line entry widget).
Inevitably in a core library you make certain compromises. Third
party software can be written to ameliorate these, though, and
that seems to be a good division of responsibility.

Apologies for the rant. :)

	Brian