Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

2009/9/25 Bean <bean123ch@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
>> If I understand it correctly this means that a panel is a bunch of
>> cells which are laid out horizontally and at some random point (but at
>> most after max_columns cells) a row break is inserted and the later
>> cells start in a new row.
>>
>> I would prefer a more deterministic approach: the panel is either one
>> column or one row (vertical or horizontal).
>> This should cover the common cases, real tables are seldom needed.
>
> Hi,
>
> But max_columns can cover both case,
>
> max_columns = 1
> one column
>
> max_columns = 1000  (or any big number)
> one row, we could also use special number -1 to indicate infinite
> number of widgets.
>

OK, it does but it is quite confusing way of achieving that.

What do the other possible values give you, though?

If I set max_colums to 3 then I get rows of 1-3 cells,
non-deterministically. I can't say  in what row or column a particular
cell will be. Is such layout useful for anything?

Thanks

Michal