Re: Implementing HIG style frames with GtkFrame

["David Adam Bordoley" <bordoley msu edu>]

Owen Taylor writes:
> I've certainly said it elsewhere at some point, but magically making
> all frames HIG-ident boxes when running under GNOME is not right and won't 
> work. The main problem is that the details of the surrounding padding will
> be wrong. 
>
> You can't design a nice looking dialog without having some idea of
> how it's going to look; frames and HIG indents are *different* forms
> of grouping, even if they serve the same logical purpose. 
>
> My understanding of why we added the padding to GtkAlignment was that
> we were going to do HIG indents as simply 
>
>  GtkVBox
>   GtkLabel (set bold) 
>   GtkAlignment (with HIG indent of padding on the left)
>     <children> 

So should the resolution of that bug be wontfix? I personally feel that some 
sort of simple api for doing this in code would be nice so that every 
implementor doesn't need to do a custom dialog build here [1]. Anyway, I'm 
willing to do the work if I can a definitive this is what we want answer 
since I have absolutely no experience designing api. 

dave 

[1] I don't use glade probably cuz i'm just too lazy to sit down for 10 
minutes and figure it out. As a rule I just tend to code up ui's.