[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jeff Morriss wrote:
> packaging/svr4/checkinstall.in also uses the GTK version for 
> install-time dependency checking but I can't seem to figure out how to 
> get a variable in configure.in to populate that file when it builds the 
> real file.
>
> (OTOH it would be convenient for me to keep GTK < 2.4 but...)

At least at one point, I seem to remember reading that the GtkTreeView 
was changed in GTK+ 2.4 to deal with a performance issue.  A little 
searching indicated that this was the addition of a "fixed height" 
option, so it didn't have to calculate the height of every single row:

	http://lists.wxwidgets.org/pipermail/wx-dev/2006-October/078556.html

which would probably be OK for the packet list if we were to switch to 
using a GtkTreeView, which would let us change the columns without 
destroying the packet list and reconstructing it, and would also let us 
avoid allocating strings for the content of all rows and columns by 
having a tree model that dissects packets on the fly (that requires 
support for fast random access to packets even in compressed files, but 
that's probably doable).

However, there might be some other issues with the GtkTreeView and large 
capture files:

	http://inverted-tree.livejournal.com/58999.html

	http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-February/msg00032.html

	http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-February/msg00035.html

although that thread included

	http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2008-February/msg00040.html

which has a rather familiar use case :-), and the custom TreeModel is 
exactly what I've thinking of; perhaps that would avoid the problems 
being discussed.

Alternatively, I had a version of the GTK+ 1.2.10 GtkClist modified to 
fetch the column strings by calling a routine associated with the CList; 
I could try to make those modifications to the GTK+ 2.x GtkClist, and 
use that, although that has the disadvantage that we'd be maintaining 
our own version of a (deprecated) widget.