Hi Cosimo, On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Cosimo Cecchi <cosi...@gnome.org> wrote: > Hi Stefano! > > On Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:51:11 +0100, Stefano Teso wrote: > >> - Considering the better theme-ability of GtkIconView (as exposed by >> some themes, e.g., Clearlooks Revamp), I was wondering whether it >> would be useful to port nautilus from it's own (eel-based) custom >> thing to GtkIconView. The idea would be to subclass GtkIconView to >> implement filename editing, etc. Using a GtkListView (for the list >> view, as it already is) and a GtkIconView (for the icon/compact views) >> would perhaps allow for the same data model to be used in both cases >> and simpler code. (Just a guess, I don't really have much experience >> with GTK.) Is there any deep technical reason why nautilus doesn't use >> the stock GtkIconView widget, or just lack of resources? Am I missing >> something obvious? > > Having a GtkIconView-based NautilusIconView is indeed a good and worthwhile > goal, which would also allow nautilus to drop some thousand lines of quite > complex code, which is always nice...
That's what I thought. > I think the most important feature now missing from GtkIconView is manual > layouting of items in the canvas [1], which is currently allowed in every > Nautilus' icon view (and would still be a requirement for the desktop icons, > even if we removed the feature for regular windows). I don't know whether > that's desirable for GtkIconView to allow that though, but maybe it'd be > possible to use a custom GtkCellArea implementation, which I haven't > investigated yet. Thanks for the clarification. I don't think manual icon layouting is a very used feature -- except for desktop icons, and that will still be required in GNOME 3 fallback mode --, but this is beyond the point. I will try to understand if I can make something out of this idea, but unfortunately my spare time is very limited, so don't expect patches soon ;-) Cheers, ---- Stefano > > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=528127 > > Thanks, > > Cosimo > -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list
