Re: [Gramps-devel] A few thoughts on 2.2

[Don A. <don...@co...>]

I had tried this a while ago, and then abandoned it. If someone wants to
do this, I would be interested. If I remember, there were several
problems. I think (but I'm not sure) that the CellRenderer object has to
have some type of value associated with it. A CellRendererToggle has a
True/False state, a CellRendererCombo has a text value associated with
it, etc. Another problem is that we would be responsible for all
widget-like functions, including redrawing and resizing.

As far as HIG compliance, I believe in adhering to the HIG. Adding a
column of buttons would not be the default, but would be something that
is added using the Column Editor. Since the user makes a conscious
choice to add the column of buttons, they have chosen any violation of
the HIG. And as long as this is the user's choice, I can live with this.

Don

On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 17:33 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> Hi,
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> Am Samstag, den 31.12.2005, 08:22 -0700 schrieb Don Allingham:
> > On Sat, 2005-12-31 at 11:55 +0100, Joachim Breitner wrote:
> > > Looks nice. One thing I have been missing in the family view is a but=
ton
> > > next to each child which will make that person the active person.
> > > Currently, I have to click on the child and then press the "<=3D" but=
ton,
> > > which is one click too much, IMHO.
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> > This is a limitation of GTK. We cannot embed an button in the list.
> > We've already looked into this.
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> I searched the archive, but I couln't find it. Skimming through the gtk
> docs, it seems that we nee something like GtkCellRendererToggle, that
> behaves like a button. That should be possible to implement, but that is
> something that can easily be contributed, to not distract the gramps
> developers from their core work :-)
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> The question is: Is this actually wanted, or rather not?
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> Thanks and a happy new year,
> Joachim
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Don Allingham
http://don.allingham.org