Menu Bar Bevel

["r ve" <kaas_10 hotmail com>]

Hi,


Did anyone ever think of removing that bevel from the Gtk2 menubar?

Without the bevel, things become much nicer, see:
http://home.quicknet.nl/qn/prive/rm.vaneijbergen/mbar.png

(top = current situation; bottom = ideal situation)


My biggest issue with the current beveled menubar is that it's hard to 
create a nice looking ui, instead of easy (eg. when adding a treeview, 
textview or whatever other widget with the option to put a bevel around it, 
the result will look very amateurish)


Pros of a non-beveled menubar:

- A non-beveled menubar would not only look better, it would look less heavy 
as well.
- Widgets like panes would look better.. (see screenshot)
- There would be no reason to use ***views without bevels anymore (or half 
bevels like GConf, inconsistent from the rest of the ui)
- And most important of all: the ui doesn't look like something that's 
patched together.
- It saves 2 lines of screen space, very important for those of us using 
small resolutions :)

The bad thing is that it looks more like Windows, but I don't think that's a 
good reason to ignore this (visual) bug.

Any thoughts about this?


- Rich


ps. Please CC me, thanks.


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