Re: the separator in GtkDialog

[Joel Becker <jlbec evilplan org>]

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:08:36PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> The thought was this: if you have a dialog containing a frame, then
> you don't want the separator also, but if you have a dialog with no
> frame, you probably want a separator. So that's why it's
> programmer-configurable instead of a theme thing.

	I have wailed for a long time about the ugly separator, but it
was only after jacob posted his message that I realized you can turn
them off.  My message dialogs look *sooooo* much nicer now.

> For message dialogs, I suppose the current idea is that you should not
> be turning it off. We should probably enforce that by ignoring the
> flag on message dilaog creation, Owen says he agrees. Though
> set_has_separator() would still work.

	If you are going to enforce a style, please give the default
theme a gtkrc setting for this.  "message_sep = 0" or somesuch.  I find
them ugly, as do others I polled.  Without them, the message dialogs
just look cleaner.
	What is the argument for having them in the first place?  The
message dialogs are pretty clear in their layout anyway.

Joel

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