The game list can't be sorted and filtered at the same time

[Letiliel]

A TreeModelSort is now parent of the TreeModelFilter, it allows for both sorting and filtering to work.

[Letiliel]

Bah, it actually breaks the filtering in the Icon view again...
We must be doing something wrong, or GTK is definitely broken.

[strycore]

Haven't had the time to inspect this or test the patch, will try to find a solution for this but I don't promise anything.

[Letiliel]

I don't know if you'll get notified of this comment..
So I'm trying to solve this problem. The issue was that making the store both filtered and sortable works for the TreeView but not the IconView which gets glitchy when using the search field. The error reported is
"Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_cell_area_render: assertion `GTK_IS_CELL_AREA_CONTEXT (context)' failed"

But in this tutorial it reads "Instead of using cell renderers, Gtk.IconView requires (blablabla)". So, is your use of a cell renderer in the IconView at fault? Well, not so sure. I've got rid of that text label using a cell renderer and it didn't change a thing.

Maybe it's just that sortable and filtered IconViews are not meant to exist...

A workaround is to only apply the TreeModelSort model to the TreeView. But we'll certainly want to sort the IconView too in the future (e.g. sort by 'last played' would be relevant for the icon view).

[strycore]

I still haven't had the time to have a look at this but the CellRenderer is, if I remember correctly, the way to fix the extra large padding between icons. This trick comes from Rhythmbox's Cover Art browser plugin https://github.com/fossfreedom/coverart-browser, it also uses an icon view so there may be some more code snippets to pick from this project.

[strycore]

Damette, how do I convert this from a pull request into an issue ?

[Letiliel]

I believe by opening a new issue and pasting the above conversation in the comments.

[Letiliel]

I'm doing it, so I can continue the conversation.

[strycore]

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