Re: GNOME_STOCK_EMPTY

[Tim Janik <timj gtk org>]

On 9 Nov 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> writes: 
> > there are quite a lot widgets you could put there to assure that the
> > correct space is allocated. The cleanest solution would probably by
> > to get a pixbuf from the stock system and call gdk_pixbuf_fill() to
> > clear it. I don't see why you would need an extra stock item for this.
> 
> I would write:
> 
>  GtkWidget *alignment;
>  int w, h;
> 
>  alignment = gtk_alignment_new (0.5, 0.5, 1.0, 1.0);
>  gtk_icon_size_lookup (GTK_ICON_SIZE_WHATEVER, &width, &height);
>  gtk_widget_set_size_request (alignment, width, height);
> 
> Then you have a stock-icon-sized spacer.

sure that'd work. but isn't it a hell more inconvenient than just
having an empty stock item?
i can't see any good reason to not provide one.

> 
> Havoc

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