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Daniel Boles authored
Issue #1495 showed that the docs of GtkGrid retain outdated implications that (as was once, but is no longer, the case) it is intended to replace GtkBox, by discussing HfW and widget properties in a way that suggests GtkBox can't handle them. But of course it does, and it's preferable for simple single-row/column cases. Worse, we said GtkGrid “provides exactly the same functionality” for the latter case, but the original point of that Issues was that it doesn’t, at least for CSS positional selectors! Box: • Use an actually meaningful @Short_description. • Remove unhelpful @See_also references to unrelated containers. • Remove references to “rectangular area”: it might be another shape via CSS, or “rectangular” might falsely imply 2 dimensions of children. • Mention Orientable:orientation. • Emphasise usefulness of :[hv]align for allocating in the other axis. • Don’t say that Grid “provides exactly the same functionality” for a single row or column, since (A) it is overkill for that case and (B) said Issue proved that it *doesn’t* for CSS child order, for example. Grid: • Don’t dwell on widget properties and height-for-width in a way that wrongly implies that Box can’t handle those (or Grid can better). In fact, just get rid of that bit altogether: Box handles them fine, and such wording was only needed years ago for migration from GTK+ 2 to 3. • Point to GtkBox as being preferred for the simple row/column use case.
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