Re: Tree View sidebar / List View

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 1 Jul 2002, Michael Meeks wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
> 
> On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 16:12, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > In general (i haven't thought this through), i'd like there to be only one 
> > source for listview models in nautilus.
> 
> 	Sounds good.
> 
> > Probably one with just one column 
> > that had the NautilusFile in it, and then you'd use 
> > gtk_tree_view_column_set_cell_data_func() to get the data from the 
> > model/nautilusfile to the cellrenderer/column.
> 
> 	Why bother ? AFAICS it doesn't hurt at all to have a switch statement
> in the model that dishes up the most commonly needed attributes from the
> File handle itself - it doesn't seem to consume any more space / time to
> me - and would be simpler than sharing lits of cell_data_funcs I guess.

Well. You might want to do something especially funky. But for common 
attributes this works too of course.

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