Re: CList DnD/selection "format" broken?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Paul Davis <pbd Op Net> writes: 
> just how incredibly different is the replacement for CList/CTree? will
> we have to go through a complete paradigm shift to use it, or will
> porting be fairly easy?

It is radically different, more like the Java tree. It's actually a
bit overcomplex for many uses, in an attempt to allow people to do all
the things they complained about the clist not doing. However it is
quite powerful, which is nice when you are trying to do something
hard.

clist works fine for simple uses, and will continue to do so in GTK 2,
it's not gone. The issue with the clist is just that if you try to do
something hard, it either can't be done, or the hack to do it
interacts badly with the internals of the clist which weren't designed
for it. However if you are just making a simple list, clist is fine.

Havoc