Re: GtkPacker removal

[Shawn T Amundson <amundson eventloop com>]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 11:33:07AM +0200, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> On 04/01/01 Tim Janik wrote:
> > recently the topic was braught up to get rid of GtkPacker
> > in Gtk+ proper.
> > GtkPacker is a container widget reasonably sane implemented,
> > modeled after a tcl container iirc.
> > however that widget doesn't seem to gain much use, in fact,
> > i've not seen a single third-party app that makes actuall
> > use of it. of course LBs and builders support it, and
> > gtkpacker.h is included in a bit of third party code, but
> > that's only because it introduces GtkAnchorType ;)
> > 
> > so unless people get back and tell me they use/like/need
> > GtkPacker, it's scheduled for removal.
> 
> I guess the only user is the test code and language bindings;-)
> I don't think it's used much, but people that used the Tk bindings
> in perl and python, may feel themselves more comfortable
> switching to Gtk if there is a widget that works mostly like
> Tk's packer.
> 
> lupus
> 

We originally ported Tk's packer because we were used to using Tk
with TCL and Perl, and in a lot of ways it's a nicer method of 
placing widgets.  The C interface is a tad overwelming because of
the number of arguments required for the packing functions, and 
thus not only redundant but inferior to the other container widgets.

However, in a GUI builder I would think that this would be really
nice; not only do you get a widget that is more powerful than the
average GTK+ container, but also one who's behavior is extremely
well defined and documented by several Tk books.

-Shawn

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