From: Asim Jalis <asim@...>
Date: 2004-04-11T05:45:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Simplified GTK

On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 04:43:49AM +0900, Gregory Millam wrote:
> Been meaning to chime in on Kero's posts, but got distracted
> with coding :D. And this is a timely reminder.
> 
> Buttons are capable of more than just labels. One of my tests
> has a button with an image.
> 
> And yet another one which uses its own block to define a
> context menu

One solution could be to have different kinds of buttons. A
simple button where the block is the action, and other more
sophisticated buttons that support images, and context menus.

A simple button, a text-box, a label and few other basic controls
could allow all kinds of amazing things to be done.

For example, HTML and the web/UI model works so well, because it
provides just few basic controls, rather than a lot. 

This gives it an edge over models which provide no controls and
over other models which provide so much power that the simple
case is hidden behind the structure in place to support the
complicated case.


Asim