Re: embossing of text in insensitive buttons

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:50:07AM -0700, John Boncek wrote:
> GTK/Pango draws text embossed in insensitive buttons.  The result, in our
> opinion, is that insensitive buttons look much better than sensitive
> buttons.  This leads to an inconsistent overall appearance.
>
> http://www.nabble.com/file/3875/buttons.png 
>
> I've done a *lot* of reading thru GTK and Pango documentation and on the
> internet.  I've found others complaining about this but can find no
> solution.  We would like to either be able to turn this off or to turn on
> embossing for all buttons.  The color would still clearly indicate which
> buttons are sensitive.

The implementation of a new GtkWidget style property
switching on/off the shadow is approximately as long as your
e-mail -- you just need to register it and change the if
around the first gdk_draw_layout() call in
gtk_default_draw_layout(), and possibly the same in
gtk_default_draw_string() for backward compatibility.  Make
a patch, post to bugzilla...

However, this raises questions:
- would it really improve anything?  if people complain
  about embossed labels without trying the non-embossed
  look, does it tell anything (beside the fact they don't
  care that much)? see
  http://kf.fyz.fce.vutbr.cz/~yeti/tmp/gtk-no-emboss.png
  in my opinion the labels are invisible in the first theme
  (6nome-sandy) while they are not distinct enough from
  sensitive labels in the second one (default), so the
  overall result is degradation
- you talk about buttons, what makes them different from
  other labels? (actually, the suggested option could apply
  to any widget)
- the embossed style is consistent with separators and
  other stuff, what about them?  you talk about consistency,
  but don't seem to take consistency seriously
- how many people will actually set this option if
  implemented?  [rant]can't you three just patch Gtk+ source
  and recompile?[/rant]

Yeti


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