Re: [Tile-dev] More treeview improvements

[Donal K. F. <don...@ma...>]

Michael Kirkham wrote:
> Joe English wrote:
>> Current plan is to make this theme-dependent: you want
>> it on Windows and on Windows-emulation themes like as "alt",
>> but you don't want it on OSX or most other X11 themes.
> 
> Well, win98 and earlier.  Windows XP and other newer versions don't have 
> the dotted lines anymore.

Yes, but (on XP) the rows of the tree should be closer together. By
comparing Explorer and the Tk Directory Browser widget demo, I see that
the xpnative theme at least makes rows at least 3 pixels too far apart.
In fact, if I compare Explorer with the XP Management tree I also see an
inconsistency - that uses lines, puts the rows another extra pixel
closer together, and doesn't use the XP-style tree expanders - and I get
*more* inconsistency when comparing with regedit (lines, rows as tight
as with the manager, but uses the XP-style expander boxes).

It seems that MS can't even be consistent within themselves. :-\ But be
that as it may, without the lines the rows in the xpnative ttk::treeview
are definitely too far apart (the font sizes are identical) which is
enough that it's a bit too hard to see the tree as a tree. (By examining
the details of the various Win apps listed above, I can see why the
lines will be difficult, but the spacing is a problem that should be
easier to fix and it *will* help.)

Donal (testing with the current AS distro).