Re: Toolbar separators

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Ed Symanzik <zik msu edu> writes:
> I am using Glade to write a helloworld project.
>
> gnome_app_new gives me a nice, dockable toolbar that 
> the user can orient vertically or horizontally.  Cool.
> The vseparator I added remains vertical.  Not cool.
>
> I can catch the orientation changes ok, but how do I
> switch between a vseparator and a hseparator?

Oddly enough, you would normally use gtk_toolbar_append_space()
instead of a separator widget for a separator in a toolbar. Glade
probably exports this somehow.

> At a lower level, why is there a single toolbar widget
> with a selectable orientation, but two separate
> separators with fixed orientations?  Why not 
> gtk_separator_new(GTK_ORIENTATION_HORIZONTAL)?

Historical reasons; I think "Motif did it that way" is probably the
answer that reaches furthest back into history. (I don't know if Motif
had separators, but I think it has the H/V widgets instead of single
widgets that rotate.)

Havoc