Re: [Announce] gtkmm-utils 0.2.0

[Marko Anastasov <marko marko anastasov name>]

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 13:27 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 13:19 +0200, Marko Anastasov wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:01 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 02:16 +0200, Marko Anastasov wrote:
> > > [snip]
> > > > New Tile API
> > > > ------------
> > > > 
> > > > Tiles are intuitive widgets for a better user experience, by default
> > > > composed of an image, highlighted title and a short description. They
> > > > offer important extensibility not available when building a GtkTreeView
> > > > based interface. Very similar UI components are currently used by the
> > > > Beagle search tool (http://beagle-project.org). This release introduces
> > > > the Tile widget, TileView, a container, and optional PageNavigator,
> > > > which can together provide an integrated page-separated view. An example
> > > > is provided.
> > > [snip]
> > > 
> > > This sounds intriguing. Could we see some screenshots?
> > 
> > Yes, please see http://www.marko.anastasov.name/blog/?p=16 .
> 
> Thanks. It mentions GtkTreeView. Is this a replacement for a TreeView,
> or does it use TreeView?

It is a replacement for TreeView. Generally a more user-friendly
alternative to tabular view IMO, and because it is widget-based, it is
possible to extend it with arbitrary widgets.

	Marko