GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 325182
GtkCellRendererCombo is non-intuitive
Last modified: 2007-06-06 11:17:31 UTC
When a treeview contains a combo cell renderer, noone can see that it is a combo unless they try to click on it. The CellRendererCombo should draw itself like a combobox (with a little arrow next to the displayed value). Other information:
Created attachment 56677 [details] [review] A patch that adds an arrow pointing down just before the text of the combo cell renderer. I wrote this patch today in order to have a CellRendererCombo with an indication that that cell is actually a combobox. The indication is in the form of an arrow pointing down before the displayed text. It is working for both LTR and RTL modes. I don't know if its usable in commercial level, but I think its a good start :) Itai.
I've been thinking about this for a while, and no of the cells give indication that they are editable themselves. Usually it is clear from the context that the cell is editable. When you then activate a cell to edit it, you will be presented with an entry, or combo box, or ... I don't see any reason to make an exception for the combo renderer in this case by drawing an indication that it is editable.