On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 04:58, Michael Meeks wrote: > Hi Ettore / Jonathan, > > On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 22:37, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > > * 100% accessible. (If we port Evolution to GNOME 2, we have to > > add accessibility support to all the widgets, and making ETree > > accessible is a very non-trivial task.) > > I don't particularly concur here; in fact it's unlikely that adding > accessibility to E-table is going to be _that_ hard.
Last time I looked the estimate was about two man-months. My feeling is that porting Evolution to use GtkTreeView would take less time, and is also a more easily parallelizable task. > Certainly compared > with the hassle of switching, the pain of using a big chunk of complex > code over which we have no control, and cannot add features to ( due to > the disparate Gtk+ release cycle ), it's a trivial thing. That's why have to start listing the features that we want now, and make sure that they get into GTK+. > > * Maintainability. ETable is a very complex codebase, and we > > still find bugs in it. > > Ditto GtkTree :-) and that's without adding the new code to implement > the features we need. Ultimately if you want features you get complexity > - surely ? The features we want are actually pretty limited. -- Ettore _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
