Re: Toolbar separators

[Ralf Corsepius <corsepiu faw uni-ulm de>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Ed Symanzik <zik msu edu> writes:
> > 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.)

Hmm, 

AFAIK, the opposite is true:
* Gtk in all cases I know uses separate H/V widget variants (Scale,
Separator etc.)
* Motif uses orientation resources (XmNortientation) and unified
widgets for the H/V cases.

Ralf.