Re: The HIG and Layout

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 20:47, Jacob Kolding wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 01:25, iain wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-10-22 at 23:03, Jacob Kolding wrote:
> >
> > > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/images/layout2.png
> > >
> > > How many Frames Tables HBoxes VBoxes in what order and with what spacing
> > > and border width are required to obtain the above layout?
>
> First of all Thanks for the reply!
>
> > Its a Vbox with a label ("Actions") and an hbox in it.
> > the hbox then has a label spacer which is just 4 spaces "    "
>
> So this is the hack to move it all in towards the right.
> Isn't their a "cleaner" way to do it?

Well, it's marginally cleaner (and definitely more HIG compliant) to use
an empty widget (like a GtkAlignment) instead of the label and do
gtk_widget_set_size_request (alignment, 12, -1);

In GTK+-2.4, you'll be able to replace the HBox with an alignment and
use gtk_alignment_set_padding (alignment, 12, 0, 0, 0);

Regards,
                                                Owen