Hi; you probably wanted to send you email to gtk-devel-list. On 13 December 2016 at 20:08, Ian Puleston <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: The "big blank area" is meant to ensure that the first item in the list is close to the location of the pointer; the "appears-as-list" style property was mostly a hack with pretty serious side effects in the overall maintainability of the GtkComboBox widget. > Then in searching for info about this I came across a commit just last month > saying “combobox: Remove appears-as-list style property. Remove all the code > handling the appears-as-list=TRUE case”. In general, style properties are going away in GTK+ 4.x, if they cannot be replaced by CSS properties. In the specific case of GtkComboBox, though, the "appears-as-list" style property was literally used to create a separate widget that responded to the GtkComboBox API, which is even worse. We're looking into creating a new "combo box" widget for GTK+ 4.x, which will likely be styled as a pop over; see, for example, this: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2014-December/msg00025.html and the relative branch: https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/log/?h=wip/combo and designs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gnome-design-team/gnome-mockups/master/theming/widgets/combobox-replacements.png > So is this style property known to be not working in GTK-3? And is that the > reason that it is being removed, or something else? Will it be removed in > GTK-3 or not until GTK-4? GTK+ 3.x is feature and API frozen; no new API, no new features, only bug fixes and deprecation warnings are going to be allowed from now on; so, the "appears-as-list" style property will still work. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
