Please see bug 102477...I explained it there. Outliner can't currently display progressmeters. That's why tree was used (temporarily).
--Blake Pratik wrote: > On 03/18/2002 02:11 PM, Christian Mattar wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> Pratik wrote: >> >>> Its part of the MachV spec so I gues it should be in. But I can't >>> believe they used the tree widget for the Download Manager. Why didn't >>> they use outliner? There's a bug for converting all tree widgets to >>> outliner and they go ahead and write up new code that uses the tree >>> widget? I'm surprised. >> >> >> >> In this case, I think it's ok. The download list is probably always >> pretty small, so performance isn't much of a problem. I think the >> problem with outliner is that you can't put arbritary content in it, so >> stuff like a progress bar might be a problem. I could be wrong, though. > > > Well one of the first things I did after opening the Download Manager > was try to change the widths of the columns. The tree widget is quite > annoying in this respect. There's bug 73948 - Replace trees with > outliner which tracks all the tree widgets that we have in mozilla. With > this download manager, I suspect we can add nother bug to its dependency > list - Convert Download Manager to outliner (which I am inclined to file). > > Pratik. >
