Features/TableView Widget

Summary
GTK widget to replace gtk.TreeView in Journal.

Owner

 * Name: Aleksey Lim
 * Email: send an email

Current status

 * Targeted release: 0.88
 * Last updated: Mon Jan 11 21:15:02 UTC 2010
 * Percentage of completion: 90%

Detailed Description
Feature introduced two new classes - SmoothTable and TableView.

SmoothTable class
Model less implementation. The real widget consists of visible-columns * (visible-rows + 2) identical widgets (constructor is passed to SmoothTable during creation) and while scrolling (by pixel); SmoothTable shifts these widgets.

TableView class
Just adds gtk.TreeModel support.

Benefit to Sugar
Standard gtk components are not designed to be lazy. Third party widgets, I managed to find, uses scheme with renders (like gtk components), introduced component uses widgets instead (could have performance penalties, I guess, in common case but we don't have many rows in Journal view, so should be ok for us).

Benefits we have for such scheme:
 * coding cells is more useful by using widgets than renders, we can reuse our existing custom widgets instead of coding sugarized cell renders
 * in some cases it's hard to sugarize cells theme (we still have ugly progress bar for Journal entries), with new widget, we use just gtk.ProgressBar

Scope

 * new widget for sugar-toolkit

UI Design
Nothing.

User Experience
Nothing will be changed in case of user experience.

Dependencies

 * regular glucose dependencies

Contingency Plan
None necessary, revert to previous release behaviour.

Documentation
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Release Notes
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