GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 568033
horizontal item ordering for GtkIconView
Last modified: 2018-02-10 04:35:32 UTC
We're (slightly ab)using GtkIconView as a means of laying out a grid of text-only cells (none of the other standard widgets can do this, as far as I know; the closest you can get is GtkTreeView, and that can't flow items between rows or columns but relies on you putting them into the right places by hand, which isn't very satisfactory). At the moment it produces something like this, where the items are in fact language names: Item1 Item2 Item3 Item4 Item5 Item6 Item7 Item8 Item9 In this application, I find this ordering rather difficult to read. It's comfortable to read flowing text left-to-right then top-to-bottom, but for a cell layout of text strings I would prefer a newspaper-style layout where items flow down one column before moving onto the next, like this: Item1 Item4 Item7 Item2 Item5 Item8 Item3 Item6 Item9 However, as far as I can see, GtkIconView does not support this layout. Could this option be implemented?
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