Re: Random notes about Gnumeric on Windows.

[Morten Welinder <mwelinder gmail com>]

> Pie in the sky:
>    Are we ever going to be able to reduce the size of our GUI elements?
> We look like a baby toy next to the "serious" tiny print excel. We are
> wasting gobs and gobs of screen estate.

That's a gtk+ theme issue, really.  Try adding these to your gtkrc file
(the one that would be ~/.gtkrc-2.0 on the Unix side):

# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
gtk-icon-sizes =
"gtk-menu=12,12:gtk-small-toolbar=8,8:gtk-large-toolbar=24,24:gtk-dnd=32,32"

gtk-toolbar-icon-size = small-toolbar

gtk-button-images = 0

style "default"
{
  GtkUIManager::add_tearoffs = 0
  GtkComboBox::add_tearoffs = 0
  GOComboBox::add_tearoffs = 0
}
class "*" style "default"
# ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dom would know more -- the above are from his bug reports.

> Pie in outer space:
>    Any reason we couldn't have the windows version behave like excel
> with multiple files, that is with lots of files within a bigger
> container (named MDI?)? Wouldn't our model-view-controler separation
> handle the situation? Not that we would want to do this, but *could*
> gnumeric do it?

I think the situation is that we really, really do not want to.  And
that therefore
no-one is spending any effort on even trying and that bug reports are
getting WONTFIXed.

>    The arrows on the buttons for the drop down list (i.e. font) are on a
> button so large the arrows don't seem attached to their respective
> boxes. Also by being in the middle of the button, an arrow between could
> be attached to either

I hope the above helps here too.  Otherwise, please file a bug report with
a screen shot.

> ?GTK?
>    The arrows at the end of the toolbar, when the toolbar is larger than
> the app window width, don't indicate enough what they are about. Perhaps
> the background of the button could look like a torn toolbar. In Excel,
> the button sits on a background of a different colour which really
> indicates its 'meta' behaviour.

The extenders should not be needed after the above on regularly sized
windows.

> ?GTK?
>    Tooltips have the same dark grey as the app for a background, makes
> reading the tooltip hard and doesn't separate the tooltip as a
> highlighted element as well as changing the background colour would.

Bugzilla with screen shot, please.

> ?GTK?
>    The scrollbar arrows don't look like arrows.

Certainly gtk+.  No idea otherwise.
 
> ?GTK? ?Gnumeric's use of GTK?
>    Neither the file open nor file save dialogs have help buttons.

That would be a gnumeric issue.  (The unix side does not have it either.)

> ?GTK?
>    Blocking errors don't stay on top.

Hmm.  Better bugzilla that.

Morten