patch and questions

[Stefano Teso <stefano teso gmail com>]

Hello list,

- Recently I uploaded a patch for nautilus git (2.91.5+) to allow
better keboardability of the new places sidebar [1]. IMHO it's useful
material, and it's extremely simple. I would warmly appreciate any
feedback.

- Considering the better theme-ability of GtkIconView (as exposed by
some themes, e.g., Clearlooks Revamp), I was wondering whether it
would be useful to port nautilus from it's own (eel-based) custom
thing to GtkIconView. The idea would be to subclass GtkIconView to
implement filename editing, etc. Using a GtkListView (for the list
view, as it already is) and a GtkIconView (for the icon/compact views)
would perhaps allow for the same data model to be used in both cases
and simpler code. (Just a guess, I don't really have much experience
with GTK.) Is there any deep technical reason why nautilus doesn't use
the stock GtkIconView widget, or just lack of resources? Am I missing
something obvious?

Thanks,

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Stefano

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637768