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

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