Re: bonoboui toolbar bits ...

El mar, 12-11-2002 a las 11:16, Michael Meeks escribió:
> Hi Ricardo,
> 
> On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 19:43, Ricardo Fernández Pascual wrote:
> > Great. That will surely help us. We will have to reimplement some of our
> > "old" controls but this is great news. Thanks!
> 
> 	Good; I'd sub-class the bonobo-ui-toolbar-[button-]item if I were you,
> that's prolly the best way then you can adapt to the style / want/label
> / orientation settings etc.

Yes, good idea.

> 
> > Context menus are my main problem with bonoboui. What is the api that
> > you propose? Will it be implemented? ;)
> 
> 	Well - since you can do everything you need by simply whacking a
> control (now widget) in there - it seems there's not much more you need?
> in the worst case, it's as complicated as Gtk+.

Except for menus.

> 
> > Also note that for adding context menus for menus I have to use the
> > button_press event (and when porting to gtk2 I needed the event_after
> > signal too in order to make it behave correctly). I don't know how would
> > this fit in the API.
> 
> 	Again - currently to do that, you have to insert a widget.

In the menu? When I tried to do this it didn't work. I tried putting a
GtkMenuitem in the path of a menu item and bonoboui placed it inside
another GtkMenuitem. What should I try?

It would be great if I could add GtkMenuitems to a bonoboui menu. It
would simplify a lot of things.

> 
> > That would be enough for most things. 
> 
> 	I still havn't got to the DoFile_left|right|middle type thing yet -
> which sucks; if someone wants to hack up a patch I'm interested though.
> 
> > > 	bonobo_ui_component_freeze
> > > 	... umpteen operations ...
> > > 	bonobo_ui_component_thaw
> >
> > I think I'm not doing it. I'll look.
> 
> 	The freeze / thaw will (should) give a fairly massive performance
> improvement ;-)
> 
> > But my point is that having to build XML for building a menu is a pain,
> > even if it could be done efficiently. It's good for the apps interface
> > because you keep it in a separate file and it's clean. But building the
> > XML from C is messy.
> 
> 	Sure; it sucks, there were helper methods to do it - but IMHO they
> rather sucked too so I axed them ;-)
> 

We have some helpers (taken initially from nautilus/eel). But the api is
not as flexible as using gtk+ of course. Anyway, I don't think that this
can be completely fixed  with the current design of bonoboui[1].


Thanks again!


[1] I don't mean this as a critique for bonoboui, is just that I think
that dynamic menus where not considered an important requirement when
designing it. It works well for the things that it was designed.



-- 
Ricardo Fernández Pascual
[email protected]
Murcia. España.



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