Re: Tree icon

["James M. Cape" <jcape jcinteractive com>]

thristian@atdot.org wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 10:26:12AM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> > From: <thristian@atdot.org>
> > > I would suggest that each folder should have a widget for
> > > expansion/contraction. On MacOS & Mozilla, this is the little triangle
> > > thing. On Windows, this is the little box containing a "+" or "-" (the
> > > Mac way is better - incidentally: it's easier to tell a "v" from a ">"
> > > than it is to tell a "[+]" from a "[-]" at high resolution..).
> >
> > I've begged the GTK+ development group to add themability for the tree
> > expansion icons ... so that [+] and [-] can be replaced with those arrows.
> > Even ICQ 2000 on Windows now uses them instead.
> 
> Well, that's weird. Every tree-widget I have changed from [+] and [-]
> to v and > when I upgraded to HelixGNOME 1.2. Helix must have done
> something odd, then.

GTK+ *has* the ability to draw the triangle-expanders, but uses [+] and
[-] by default. Helix simply changed the default in GTK+'s source to use
triangle expanders. I've done the same with my CVS gtk+. The "trick" is
to get app authors to not set this explicitly (and let GTK+ do it).
Currently GMC and X-Chat are the apps I've noticed that use non-triangle
expanders on purpose (GMC = square, X-Chat = circle). 

    Jim Cape
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