Jason House wrote:
Being a bit late in responses is the curse of daily digests... I see
now that you posted your changes before I responded to the proposal.
The real gist of my post was that users may want to have something
other than 3 items displayed at a time. Rather than just say a few
vague words, I tried to create a layout that would handle it.
Yes, I see that, and a picture is usually much better than some words.
There is also the possibility of adding more pictures to your
design, but the question becomes where to stop... Allowing the option
to only display one or two items adds only 3 more pictures.
That's already possible, as you simply choose one of the layouts and
fill "none" in one or more fields.
The most common way to handle 4 items would be to split the window
into quadrants...
Well, that's not possible in "my" approach.
I don't have a whole lot of GTK experience. Do such things as vpanes
and hpanes exist?
Yes they do, if you're interested, have a look at: gtk_vpaned_new() and
gtk_hpaned_new().
I guess that even if they don't the meaning would have be clear. You
are right that panes only accept two items, but just like the original
ethereal GUI, there are ways to acceptably handle more than 2.
Yes of course. The current implementation already creates 4 panes, 2
vertically and 2 horizontally, and uses 2 of them as requested by the
settings.
Regards, ULFL