FW: How does GnomeCanvas scrolling work..?

[Lion Kimbro <lion lithtech com>]

  Dear January,

  In the Gnome libraries, there is a stock set of menu items and what not.
Included in the stock items is a "Quit" or "Exit" button. I think you might
even get it for free when you create a GnomeApplication. You certainly get
it for free when using Glade.

  In general, if you want to adhere to GUI guidelines, stick with the stock
elements whenever possible, and if you are drawing to a GDK buffer or a
GnomeCanvas, use the styles as described in Pennington:
http://www.andamooka.org/reader.pl?pgid=ggadsec_style

  I've got a few notes on my web page:
http://taoriver.net/~lion/proj/pygtk/
  (Look under "These colors are cool, but I heard that there's a better way
that will connect up with the theme engine".)

  [Anyone know about the GnomeCanvas scrolling? Anyone?]

  Take care,
    Lion Kimbro {:)}=



-----Original Message-----
From: January Weiner 3 [mailto:jweiner1 ix urz uni-heidelberg de]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 12:54 AM
Cc: 'gtk-app-devel-list gnome org'
Subject: Re: How does GnomeCanvas scrolling work..?


Hi,
        are there any GUI-guidelines for Linux and/or for gtk+/GNOME
        applications? I mean, stupid things like what is the shortcut for
        "quit", where it should be placed, that the help menu is on the
        right side etc. Or, rather, everybody does what he damn pleases? 

I am writing a scientific application using gtk+[*], and I have started
wondering whether there are such guidelines after a flamewar I had with a
Mac freak ("and in Mac, *every* application uses apple-Q").

        Best regards,
        j.

[*] http://www.bioinformatics.org/genpak/