Disclosure triangles to the other side

[Danielle Foré]

Discloser triangles should be on the right side as in Marlin, BeatBox, etc.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

Do *you* know how to resolve this? I don't know of any API responsible for such a change -- is it an egtk style perhaps?

[Danielle Foré (danrabbit)]

Not sure how its done :p I guess check Marlin code?

[David Gomes (davidgomes)]

I checked Marlin code, found nothing (I found where it's done, but it's not very clear).

So, I sent an email to the Vala Mailing list asking how to do this, waiting for response.

We have to get the column that is on the top right of the Tree View and use tree_view.set_expander_column( top_right_column).

The issue is getting the top right column.

[Avi Romanoff (aroman)]

I believe BeatBox also does this.. I'll have a look around there as well.

[David Gomes (davidgomes)]

Scott already created a class "SideBar.vala", which can be found here:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~beatbox-team/beat-box/trunk/view/head:/src/Widgets/SideBar.vala

That class draws the triangles (expanders) on the right. We have to create our own instance, and add the Gtk.TreeView (tree_view) to it.

On Beat-Box they also use their custom Tree View, this might also be useful:

http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~beatbox-team/beat-box/trunk/view/head:/src/Widgets/SideTreeView.vala

[Andrea Basso (voluntatefaber)]

I moved the arrows on the right, but I couldn't set the indentation.
The simplest (but not elegant at all) way is to add some spaces before the word, or there are other ways but I couldn't get any of them to work.