Re: [Gaim-devel] [Gaim-commits] SF.net SVN: gaim: [17495] trunk/gtk/gtkstatusbox.c

[Sean E. <sea...@gm...>]

On 10/17/06, Luke Schierer <lsc...@us...> wrote:
> I explained why it makes no sense for it *to* be there, because it is
> never a valid choice.  *why* do you disagree?

Because a combobox is, by definition, a list of choices, one of which
is selected. We had to subclass GtkComboBox to allow slightly
different behavior (a list of choices, one of which is selected, but
there may be some weird exception to that selection). We do this by
showing a second description line and a different icon, but it's still
a list of choices in which one is selected. To override the behavior
further---a list of choices of which one is selected, unless it's a
saved status in which case the one that's actually selected choice
isn't even in the list anymore---breaks the whole metaphor, confuses
people, and looks like a bug.

-s.