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

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 08:13, Damon Chaplin 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.
> 
> I think I recently took out the GtkDialog action area border width property
> because it is now determined by the theme. If Glade sets it it will just be
> overridden by GTK+ when the style is set/changed. (I'll check, though.)
> 
> 
> > 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-b
> ox.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 ;-)
> 
> I'll have a look at this. I'm not sure how hard it is to do yet.
> 
> I'm not sure if the Glade/libglade XML format is frozen for 2.0.x at this
> point, though. Adding size groups may need an update to libglade.

woah, thanks dude!

-Seth