On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 03:13:40PM -0700, John McDermott wrote:
> Well, it seems that 2.0.0 is finally out. Congrats to the Gtk team
> which includes "our own" Guy Harris.
Eh? I have contributed some changes to GTK+, and made an API suggestion
for the new {tree,list} view widget, based on experience with Ethereal,
but I wouldn't count myself as part of the GTK+ team - I haven't made
major contributions.
> I have not had time to review the
> changes, but it looks as though they are major. I also note "A final
> version of the Windows port is expected within a month or two." That
> may be very useful. Does anyone know if 2.0 is a superset of 1.2 or if
> we'd have to make major changes to use it?
They don't guarantee that applications will work without source code
changes.
It *might* be the case that there are applications that work.
However...
> The main change I am aware
> of the addition of GtkTreeView and (IIRC, the deprecation of GtkTree).
...one change is that, internally, GTK+ uses UTF-8-encoded strings,
rather than, say, EUC-encoded or other forms of encoding for non-ASCII
strings. That might require some changes on our part (changes for the
better, as we wouldn't have to worry about the encoding of fonts).
> The info on GtkTreeView is (from
> http://www.gtk.org/gtk+-2.0.0-announce.html):
> GtkTreeView - a flexible widget for tree and list display, with
> features such as a model-view split for abstracting data storage
> from display, the ability to create custom models to accommodate
> large data sets, versatile display/rendering features, and
> editable data cells.
Yes, that'd be a nice widget for the packet-list pane - it means that,
to display a row, the view widget calls back to the model widget to get
the column information, rather than requiring strings to be allocated
for columns when you construct the packet-list pane.
> BTW I also note one of the improvements listed is "A clean and
> attractive new default appearance."
Yeah, they switched from the Motif-ish default to a new default style.
