Re: Two glade features that would be very useful for HIG

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

Oh, and one more...

It'd be nice to have access to the homogenous property of the action
area button box.

-Seth

On Sun, 2002-08-18 at 14:49, Seth Nickell wrote:
> I expect Damon doesn't have time to work on this so I thought I'd throw
> the thought out to a larger group of people. There are two glade
> features that would be very useful in allowing the current HIG
> guidelines to be implemented in glade alone without the need for
> supporting code calls. I don't know about the technical feasibility of
> implementing these, so maybe its just NotPossible(TM).
> 
> 1) GtkDialogs have a borderwidth around the button action area. In HIG,
> alerts should have a uniform border around the whole alert, and the same
> spacing between buttons and the text. This isn't possible with a
> borderwidth set on the button action area. It would be nice to be able
> to change the borderwidth property on this control.
> 
> 2) GtkSizeGroups... The current HIG category and alignment
> recommendations appear not to be implementable without these. It would
> be nice to be able to define controls as belonging to size groups in
> glade. (see
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/images/tabbed-dialog-box.png for a bad example). The basic problem is that we need alignment of controls across category boundries (which are just frames with their Shadow turned off). If anyone knows how to achieve this without using outside-glade code, I'd love to hear about it ;-)
> 
> -Seth
> 
> 
> 
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