On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 07:12:36PM +0100, John Darrington wrote:
> I don't exactly recall the reasons why we decided that GtkTreeView didn't
> satisfy our needs - perhaps it was to do with the rendering of the "special"
> widgets in the Variable type,decimals and value labels columns - but maybe
> whatever it was, they no longer apply now that we have moved to Gtk+3

The only real issue with GtkTreeView is that it doesn't efficiently
handle large data sets.  It uses O(n) time to deal with a sheet with n
rows or n columns.  It's fine for small data sets but with a million
rows it falls over.

(I'd also like to get rid of PsppSheetView.)

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