Re: GTK Toolbars

[Michael Taht <mtaht mvista com>]

There are a ton of assumptions in the widget set and defaults for
buttons, scrollbars, widget spacing, etc, that make the gtk waste a lot
of screen area, which is death on a small (320x240 ipaq for example)
display.

Also the notorious filesel widget does not work well at this resolution. 

I stuck up a preliminary hack at solving the problems on
mvista.sourceforge.net, calling the result "squashed gtk". I agree these
defaults should be themable but what I wanted (at the time) was a
version of the gtk libraries that would recognise really small displays
and adjust its defaults accordingly, yet be plug-compatible with the
standard gtk. 

Adding themeability support would be nice, though. I hope to return to
this problem sometime after the new year and work against the 1.3.x
sources.

hp redhat com wrote:
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> From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>
> Date: 29 Dec 2000 17:18:58 -0500
> In-Reply-To: Erick Woods's message of "Fri, 22 Dec 2000 10:36:08 -0600 (CST)"
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> Erick Woods <erick ljm net> writes:
> > I think this is more than the default widget set though.  It is more about
> > the space each widget takes up and 'whitespace' within each widget.  It is
> > space that really, to me, doen't seem to relate to themes at all, but I
> > can not say for certain.  Anyone?
> >
> 
> Themes should be able to affect spacing, but mostly can't at the
> moment. This may or may not be partly fixed for GTK 2.
> 
> For the defaults, it's not changed for 2.0 at the moment, but perhaps
> should be. If you file a bug in bugzilla.gnome.org on this issue it
> would be helpful to at least keep it on the todo list.
> 
> Havoc
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