Re: new header style looking strange with some themes

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 01/12/2004 03:46:42 PM, Albrecht Dreß wrote:
> The new header display style looks really nice with the GTK  
> default theme, but the result with e.g. AquaX/Meta-Aqua is,  
> well, strange... (see screenshot). Maybe it's possible to force  
> the outside border being drawn in the text background style  
> instead of the default standard background?

Back to the drawing board, I believe...

> Furthermore, i noticed that the header lines of embedded  
> messages are still displayed in the old style. IMHO the new  
> style and/or more border would be an improvement, too...

Yes, both!  New style, for consistency of presentation, and  
border or framing of some kind as a visual cue to embedding.

How about a separate widget for each part, with the whole message  
treated the same way?  A vbox for a message, with a header box  
and a content vbox, and a vbox containing an arbitrary widget for  
each part?  We could build it recursively, and pack the whole  
thing in the notebook page, putting borders around any message  
part.  With luck, that construction might make styling a little  
simpler.

OK, it's a lot of coding for somebody... ;-)

Peter