Re: [Evolution-hackers] evolution's UI, consistency and codebase

[Srinivasa Ragavan <sragavan novell com>]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 10:36 +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
> Le jeudi 31 mai 2007 �7:19 +0000, Srinivasa Ragavan a �it :
> > On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 00:17 +0200, Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:> 
> > > First thing that hit me was that it didn't use GtkTreeView and that it
> > > doesn't understand _ markup. 
> > 
> > I think that can be moved to GtkTreeView and shouldn't have a issue.
> > Patches are welcome :).
> I'll fill a bug and work on a patch.

Cool :-)

> 
> > It is not that, it doesn't understand markup. The '_' is there to
> > provide key accelerator in visible UI items, and it isn't stripped of at
> > those places. I don't think that '_' makes any sense in the table/row.
> Yep, that's what I meant
> 
> > > I know evolution has its own ETable widget
> > > and that it does thing that evolution needs and gtk+ doesn't provide but
> > > why use this widget here ?
> > 
> > It is that, we have moved to GtkTreeView to in lots of places and we
> > have list of places where we want to move and don't want to move.
> > Message list is a place where we don't want to move.
> The why was refering to the "Customize View" dialog, not the message view. But see next point.
> 
> > > 
> > > The second thing is the "Edit" button. It is not the same as everywhere
> > > I looked in the preferences window, this is bad.
> > 
> > This can be fixed. 
> Will fill a bug an provide a patch unless somebody is quicker than me :)
> > > 
> > > Last point is, why is the mail view headers fixed (like not look like
> > > buttons) in 2.10 and not the other views as well (memos, calendars,
> > > contacts)
> > 
> > In few themes, Ive seen that it looks like a table header, but not in
> > all themes. If you have seen this 2.10, may be with a right theme. Im
> > sure that this should be fixable in widgets/table. I don't think it
> > would right to fix all the other themes for this.
> 
> I've seen that too, but the point was more: "Why are the message view
> headers looking different than every other ETable I can see in
> evolution ?". I've looked at different themes and it was always
> different. I'm not an expert in GtkWidget hacking but can't we "inherit"
> some properties from regular list headers ?

Different in what sense? I see that message-list is not consistent with
GtkTreeview but so as is the other memo/task list. Im sorry, I'm not
getting it.

-Srini