Re: GtkFrame has no frame border drawn?

[Richard Shann <richard rshann plus com>]

On Mon, 2015-08-10 at 09:05 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> Hi;
>
> the theme is responsible for drawing the frame. The old Windows theme
> engine shows a frame; the default GTK+ theme (Adwaita) does not.

Thank you for explaining the problem. As a developer of a free software
program using GTK+ I consult the documentation to choose suitable
widgets to communicate with the users of my program. 

Having invested effort in this it is exasperating to discover that GTK+
chooses a default theme that cripples one of the widgets - by failing to
draw a frame around the contents the user can no longer see clearly what
is being grouped by the frame.

> From Chris Vine's reply (thank you too, Chris) I gather that this is a
bug which has been rectified in more recent versions of the default
theme - I am currently summoning up my courage to upgrade to Debian
Jessie, and most people I guess will have even more recent versions. So
I can treat this as a closed issue.

Thank you for help

Richard Shann



> Ciao,
>  Emmanuele.
>
>
> On 9 August 2015 at 17:07, Richard Shann <richard rshann plus com> wrote:
> > I've recently noticed that the GtkFrames in my application have lost the
> > line drawn around the frame - the text is present but not the line.
> > I see that in the documentation
> >
> > file:///usr/share/doc/libgtk-3-doc/gtk3/ch03.html
> >
> > the widget is illustrated without any line too. I am building and
> > running against GTK version 3.4.2 on 64-bit Debian Wheezy.
> >
> > The same application built for Windows using GTK 3.6.5 *does* show a
> > line around frames, albeit rather indistinct...
> >
> > Is this a known bug?
> >
> > Richard Shann
> >
> >
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