Re: ui: notebook and tree

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Christopher Roy Bratusek wrote:

> Am Dienstag, den 04.08.2009, 00:39 -0400 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
> > I see in the the README.IMPORTANT file in sawfish 1.5.0:
> >
> > "recently the old GtkNotebook UI has been replaced by a GtkTree
> > UI, sadly this widget does currently not support single-clicking
> > it, so you need to double-click it."
> >
> > This seems to me a strange choice.  The GtkNotebook API is still
> > in good standing, while the GtkTree API is strongly deprecated
> > (i.e., gets a worse write-up than most other deprecated GTK
> > features).  The current GTK docs say:
> >
> > "GtkTree is deprecated and unsupported.  It is known to be buggy.
> > To use it, you must define the symbol GTK_ENABLE_BROKEN prior to
> > including the GTK+ header files."
> >
>
> I know all that. But have a look at the notebook-style: sawfish-ui
> --flatten. This is horrible. Too much options for this style. Besides
> that: I'm working on updating rep-gtk to the gtk+ 2.12 API and started
> implementing new widgets, to replace the deprecated ones...

OK, sounds good.

Allin Cottrell