RE: Implementing HIG style frames with GtkFrame

[Murray Cumming Comneon com]

> From: Havoc Pennington [mailto:hp redhat com] 
> Sent: Freitag, 18. Juli 2003 16:44
> To: Cumming Murray (COMNEON Linz)
> Cc: otaylor redhat com; bordoley msu edu; gtk-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Implementing HIG style frames with GtkFrame
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 04:26:56PM +0200, 
> Murray Cumming Comneon com wrote: 
> > Well, I thought that the GtkAlignment would go inside the GtkFrame
> > 
> > GtkFrame (has a bold label, has no visible border)
> >   GtkAlignment (with HIG indent of padding on the left)
> >     Whatever
> 
> Right, this is what I usually do now. It's just slightly easier and
> more obvious than vbox+label, not sure it has any other advantage.

The Frame might be a big advantage for accessibility. A Frame is obviously
much more likely to be a grouping widget than yet another VBox.

Murray Cumming
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