Re: GtkText invisible

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Carlos Pereira <carlos pehoe civil ist utl pt> writes:
> In my opinion, a widget and its contents should always be visible 
> BY DEFAULT, if its sensitiveness is set to false. There should 
> be a simple way to make things invisible, but that should be 
> a programmer's decision, not a decision imposed by the toolkit.

Definitely not, one purpose of the toolkit is to make applications
consistent. I can think of no reason whatsoever why one app should be
different from another app in this respect.
 
> So, in my opinion, the GtkEntry behaviour is right, 
> the Gtktext behaviour is wrong.

I don't have too much view on that, though I do tend to think that
following Windows is a good idea, because they spend lots of money on
user testing. Attempts to reason from first principles just aren't a
substitute for an empirical approach.

It'd be worth seeing what the Mac does here as well.

Havoc