Re: buttons

[richard lucassen <mailinglists lucassen org>]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2014 14:38:26 +0100
David King <amigadave amigadave com> wrote:

> > http://www.xaq.nl/easytag1.png
>
> Excellent, that looks much better, as you can now see the pane drag 
> handles, which you should be able to use to adjust the pane width to 
> your liking.

Ok, now I see, it's the entire pane, not just the field itself.
 
> > Wouldn't it be just simpler to get an option to switch back to the
> > good old buttons?
>
> No, as that would be a non-trivial amount of code to write and
> maintain. If someone comes up with a patch, I would be happy to
> review it.
>
> > That had worked fine for over the last ten or
> > twelve years or so (I'm an early adopter of Easytag) and apparantly
> > the nice and simple application is now suffering from bloatware like
> > Gnome3...
>
> I think it is important to note that it is GTK+ that does not show
> pane resize handles if the default theme is installed, so it is
> probably more productive to file a bug report against GTK+, so that
> at least a basic handle is shown in that case.
>
> It also seems a legitimate bug that icons inside text entry fields
> are not taken into account for size allocation purposes (when setting
> a minimum number of characters to show in the field). I do not have
> time to work on those GTK+ bugs at the moment, but hopefully someone
> else does.
>
> I do not consider moving the mini buttons, which I found rather
> awkward (being small) and unintuitive (as there was no image or text
> on the buttons themselves), to be icons inside the entries as
> "bloatware like Gnome3". If you believe that, it seems a separate
> discussion than that about improving size allocation of icons inside
> GtkEntry widgets.

Hmm, strange, you think the buttons are unintuitive, ok, you have a
point, but what's so intuitive about "Abc"? :-P

Anyway, it works :) Thnx for your time!

R.

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