Thanks. I found this bug report opened a couple of years ago which seems to be the same thing that I'm seeing with appears-as-list set: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=743683 If I can reproduce this in a Linux version as well as in the Windows version then I might look into possibly fixing it if I get some time. Those mock-ups for the new replacement look great. And with a proper scroll bar - that will keep us detractors happy :-) Ian > -----Original Message----- > From: Emmanuele Bassi [mailto:ebassi@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 12:53 PM > To: Ian Puleston > Cc: ML-gtk > Subject: Re: GtkComobBox with appears-as-list - broken? going away? > > 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
