Re: road to gtkmm 2.10

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:45 -0500, Jonathon Jongsma wrote:
> > I'd prefer to use the standard dialog if we are going to show a dialog.
> > Can't we just make it work?
> 
> Yes, we certainly could.
> 
> > >  Right now there seems to be too much menu / toolbar code
> > > that distracts from the goal of the example: using the recent items
> > > stuff.  Is it OK if I make some changes to this example?
> >
> > Well, I'd like it to be as much like a real world use as possible. But I'm
> > not sure how useful it is without a sub menu anyway.
> 
> I agree about the real-world usage, but that's why I don't really like
> the popup dialog.  I guess by far the most common use case for recent
> files would be as a 'File > Recent Files' menu / submenu, but since we
> can't do this easily yet, I guess we have to go for the next best use
> case.  I honestly can't see anybody actually using a popup dialog for
> something like this (at least I know I would never use this dialog in
> applications I write -- it would annoy me to have a little window pop
> up just for this).  On the other hand, I could potentially see
> somebody using a sidebar in their application to quickly switch
> between recently opened documents (MS office for instance has
> something like this).  But I don't feel all that strongly about it, so
> I'll just get the current example working if you'd like me to.

Yes, please. Until it does something useful, we'll have to show how to
do something almost useful. At least it's a test.

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Murray Cumming
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