On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 17:35, Buchan Milne wrote:
> Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 17:14, Gerard Patel wrote:
> 
> > I can't believe it's very difficult. I mean, take an example - I'm
> > looking at Evolution right now, a GTK app. I have it maximised; the tree
> > view on the left has no scrollbars. If I make it too thin for the whole
> > tree view to be completely displayed horizontally, guess what? A
> > scrollbar appears.
> 
> At close on a million lines of code (IIRC), Evo isn't a very good
> example of how to do things easily.
> 
> The GTK2 port has taken them over a year AFAIK ... and it's nowhere near
> stable yet ...

*sigh*

come on, Buchan, surely you realise it was just the first example that
came to hand. If you really want, gaim does exactly the same. It's GTK
2, and it's a small app. Happy now? Crikey.
-- 
adamw


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