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[gtk-list] Re: GTK text widget (was Re: Proposal for a new project)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh MacDonald)
Tue May 13 16:27:06 1997

From: Josh MacDonald <jmacd@CS.Berkeley.EDU>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 13 May 1997 16:21:59 EDT."
             <19970513162159.55405@redhat.com> 
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 13:26:43 -0700
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> I've done some thinking... I wonder if it'd be useful to have two text
> widgets.  One exteremely simple one with just plain text, and a second
> for intense things that would allow embedding widgets and such.  I
> suspect the former would be useful for small apps that don't need the
> power of the later.
> 
> One comment, though... it should be a "rich text" widget, not and
> "HTML widget".  I don't think HTML parsing code really belongs in the
> widget proper.  I see something along the lines of the relationship
> between gtk_rc_parse stuff and GtkStyle objects.

This falls under the "GTK shall exhibit principles of good design" clause,
is that documented?

-josh

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