Re: GtkCombo deprecation

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 05:37:40PM -0700, Ian King [ES] wrote:
> Do you have any more info about this proposed combo widget

See the gtk-devel-list archives for the last month or two, there are
some threads there. There's code in-progress in "libegg" in CVS.
 
> Will the new combo widget have the same functionality as the older one, such
> as the ability to contain pixmapable items and allow for items to easily be
> moved and selected, etc?  Can it be made to look the same as the existing
> combo box?

The new widget subsumes GtkOptionMenu and GtkCombo with a single
widget that can look like either of those (according to the theme, not
set by the application).  This will mean people get the right UI on
both Windows and UNIX. It has the ability to contain pixmaps, text,
etc.

The main thing the new widget doesn't do is have an "editable" mode;
that will now be done as a separate widget that's basically a GtkEntry
with a completion/history dropdown list.

Havoc