Postings by Mathias on June 28, 2007
SoC-Status 2007/06/28
During the last week I've adding GtkExtendedLayout support to GtkLabel and GtkBin. GtkVBox got some first code to use this extended layout information. Results are not that fancy yet, but the next days should bring some nice break-through.
The test program got rather confusing with all the guides drawn, so it got checkboxes to toggle visibility of certain guide types. When hovering a widget, the widget itself and its guides start blinking.
Completly unrelated: Peter Sikking posted on gtk-devel today, to introduce his ideas for tag based printing dialogs. Meet him already at the LinuxTag and I absolutely liked his mockups (despite looking quite raw). He suggests to tag printing options instead of randomly spreading them over notebook pages. When opening the printing dialog, you choose tags fitting your current task ("Quick Printing", "Handouts", ...) and get presented all the relevant switches. No more searching for the page holding duplex options and such. Tags are proven to be efficient to organize information. So I definitely consider Peter's concepts being worth to consider.
