On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Alan Horkan wrote:
Jizzbug and I have been working on redoing the toolbar and menu system, and dockability is definitely on the todo list. I think this proposal is theoretically doable with the new code. I think it's a good suggestion for Inkscape. We should strive to make the new interface flexible enough to do something like this.
Can you push any of your work up/down? stream to GTK??? A lot of this kind of functionality got written for Bonobo once already but still hasn't made it into GTK yet, and it seems a shame to see it written once more and yet again but it is your choice of course.
The things we've been working on have been pretty specific to Inkscape so not the sort of thing that would be pushed upstream. We have done a few 'compound' widgets, and some stuff with dialog management that might be general enough for reuse in other apps, but it's still not mature and the style/feel may be pretty different than most people need.
The toolbar/menu/dockability work mentioned above is for _applying_ the existing Gtk functionality to our needs, not on improving it within Gtk.
Bryce