Re: [Epiphany] Security prompt dialogs

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

> > See
> > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/windows.html#dialog-boxes
> > 
> > GtkDialog and GtkMessage, was built before the guidelines, so things
> > like borders are not right by default.
> 
> If the GTK people agrees to the changes, what is proposed? a new
> constructor function in order to not distort already created dialogs
> where HIGfication was made by hand?

That could be a way ... Though it seem that Owen doesnt like the idea.
I guess he prefer to wait 3.0, when it will be possible to make
incompatible changes. These are just things I heard unfortunately,
couldnt find a thread on gtk mailing list.
My opinion is that fixing glade to format dialogs according to the HIG
is not enough, apps will still need a way to do it in the code (esp for
simple alert).
The approach that make more sense to me is to start a new implementation
in egg, either using the same api, or extending it in a way that can
be useful to all the applications.
What doesnt make any sense to me is to start a new implementation/api
for something that's needed by all application, without making sure it's
something that could be merged at a later stage.
Fixup manually is annoying, but still better than that. Once you
introduced these helpers removing them is going to be a pain, and anyway
something no one would waste time on.

Marco