[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Suggestions

[David <ab...@so...>]

Hi, I enjoy working with ruby/gtk2, thanks for your work on these
bindings!

I have a few suggestions which I hope will be usefull, they are about
making more beautiful code :)

For instance in Gtk::Box have a method << which returns this box (the
same as in arrays) so you can do this
box = Gtk::VBox.new
box << button1 << entry1 << button2 << entry2
I know this can be a problem when you want other options than the
defaults but if other options than the defaults are needed
Gtk::Box#pack_start should be used

In Gtk::Window there is only set_default_size but not default_size=, I
personally prefer the second, is there a reason that this isn't there or
did you forget it?

I would like to have the ability to set the title of a window in the
constructor (optionally of course), because you can do this by labels
buttons etc but not in window and that can be confusing

I like the way ruby/gtk works with ListView but somethimes I just want a
very small list with only one column and a few rows and only text in the
rows. For such a simple list there is pretty much work needed. In java
there was SimpleList, it had very few futures but that often doesn't
matter. This is how it could work
list = Gtk::SimpleList.new(%w{item1 item2 item3})
window.add list
list.item_selected {|item| puts item}
list.item_selected_index {|index| puts array[index]}

If you add a signal to for instance a button you have to send a string
with the signal, I don't find this very rubyish ;)
button.signal_connect('clicked') { ... } 
button.clicked { ... }

Of course I don't expect you to add these idees or to agree with me :)
but I hope you can use some of them

cheers,
david