[Aptitude-devel] Moving the search progress indicator?

[Obey Arthur Liu]

Obey Arthur Liu a écrit :
> Daniel Burrows a écrit :
>>   I've noticed that it's easy to miss the search progress indicator in
>> the GUI, because you enter the search at the top of the window but the
>> progress is shown at the bottom.  I wonder if it would be worthwhile to
>> move the progress bar to the top of the window instead?  Actually, it
>> seems to me that maybe we could hide the search entry and replace it
>> with the progress bar and a "Cancel" button.
>>
>>   Any thoughts?
> 
> The Gtk+ documentation says:
> 
> "Since 2.16, GtkEntry has the ability to display progress or activity
> information behind the text. To make an entry display such information,
> use gtk_entry_set_progress_fraction() or
> gtk_entry_set_progress_pulse_step()."

D'oh! I was going to add a nice parametered constructor to guiOpProgress
which would take a Gtk::WidgetThatHasAProgressBar abstract class like
Gtk::Entry. Too bad there's no such abstract class. In fact, Gtkmm
doesn't even provide the set_progress_fraction() method for Gtk::Entry.
This sucks. Now we have to do ugly stuff like temporarily swapping out
the Gtk::Entry with a Gtk::ProgressBar. Or maybe bypass Gtkmm and call
the underlying C GtkObject. Bah. Poor nice little first idea.

Arthur

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